From: Greg Ferro (gferro@spiderweb.com.au)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 00:09:51 GMT-3
Product positioning and marketing.
All the competitors have stacking capabilities, and these are very useful.
Sometimes Cisco has to compete in this market.
Depending on your point of view, 4 x 3548 is much more reliable that a
chassis unit and much, much cheaper. Chassis units are good, but
expensive. Do a costing on say 190 odd ports using Cat4K and another using
4 x 3548. You will see a big price difference.
Greg
CCIE #6920
At 08:53 PM 16/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Switch gods:
>
>Any of you folks installed gigastack 35xx or 29xx? I really don't see much
>of an advantage to this technology, so I wonder what I am missing. Sure,
>you can manage a bunch of switches with one IP address through a graphical
>interface. BFD.
>
>The fast failover and minimal uplinks would be cool if you could stack
>multiple switches on different floors, but as I read the specs, the switches
>must be within 1 meter of each other. If you need multiples of 48 ports in
>one closet, why not just use a modular switch?
>
>I have read the docs on CCO, but I don't really see what does this
>technology really buys us, beyond a few corner cases. Any feedback or links
>appreciated.
>
>Bob Sinclair
>CCIE #10427
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