From: P729 (p729@cox.net)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 16:58:29 GMT-3
Amazing is what a manufacturer can do with focus. Extreme certainly lived up
to their name with edge switching (lots of best-of-show awards, etc.). But
IIRC, within a year, Foundry could post similar numbers at about two-thirds
the price-per-port. The 3550 claims 6.6 Mpps at what I think would be about
one-third the price per port of Summit box at its introduction, but probably
very close to the current Summit24.
In a similar vein, there was a time when Juniper clocked Cisco in the core.
I wonder how different the landscape would be if certain strategic
partnerships would've formed to challenge Cisco's end-to-end strategy...
Regards,
Mas Kato
https://ecardfile.com/id/mkato
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy McLaughlin" <andy@andymcl.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: 3550 SMI vs. EMI
You said Amazing in your post....I do not know if I would say that. I
remember installing Extreme Summit 24 and 48's back in '98 or beginning of
'99 and they were L3 switches. Looks to me like Cisco needed years to catch
up. I think that the Summits did something like 4 million packets per
second. Are the NEW 3550's able to do that?
Don't get me wrong, I like the 3550's and would love to have one for home
playing/studying. Luckily I have a whole bunch at work to practice on.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: <Sam.MicroGate@usa.telekom.de>
To: <jmartin@capitalpremium.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: 3550 SMI vs. EMI
> SMI is a pure layer two switch. You can do all the fun stuff in it (VLANs,
> SPAN, EC,...)but you can not route. EMI, in the other hand, does all what
> SMI does plus routing. You can turn the 24 or 48 ports to routed ports.
You
> can run routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP and OSPF. Amazing....
>
> Go to www.cisco.com for more details.
>
> Sam
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Martin [mailto:jmartin@capitalpremium.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:14 PM
> To: CCIE GroupStudy
> Subject: 3550 SMI vs. EMI
>
>
> Just a quick, perhaps silly, question. Is the only difference between the
> EMI and the SMI the software image?
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