On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
Of course, if they want L3 routing on every box (I do not like such idea, but it's possible), then 3550 (or what do they have now?) is the best choice.
Definately not. The 3550 is an overpriced outdated product with moderate performance with way too small table sizes. For instance: The Summit48si handles 128k MAC addresses. The 3550 handles something like 6-15k. The Summit48si can do buffering when doing QoS/shaping, the 3550 does only policing. If you want to deliver a 2meg service over ethernet to a customer, this is a big issue. There is only one product in the 3550 line that is pricewise worth getting is the 3550-12G if you need to do L2 gig aggregation to 1gig uplink and you do not have many VLANs. There are three issues I see where the 3550 actually has a selling point: VRFs (even though they are too few) Q-in-Q (limited by the small mac table size) CEF (if you have very small routing table size and no broadcasts) -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se