I'm looking to replace some old aging extreme black diamonds. I run a semi decent size data center and I'm looking at a few options. right now we run cables from patch to patch to a 2 core switches. So it takes 3 patch cables to get it all the way back to the core from the customers rack/shared rack. Our new plan is to put a few switches per row. for a total of 8 rows. So two switches per row. Now here are my options. Foundry: Two core switches which do all layer 3, edge switches on racks doing layer 2 vlans up to the core switch. Juniper: two layer 2 switches for distro, using Virtual Chassis groups for each set of switches on rows which do layer 3. Yes my OSPF grows because now instead of 2 layer 3 switches i now i have 8 VC groups. Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone using foundry? Anyone using Juniper Switches. What do you think? I know the juniper are pretty new and i'm looking at for some some success stories, but i'm also looking for some pitfalls, i know juniper has been in the routing industry for a long time, but as for switches this is a new product for them. Thanks Andrew _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog