[BlueOnyx:12481] Re: Upgrading Switch

[Stephanie Sullivan]

Joseph,

I had a SMC Tiger switch that was feature-rich, priced attractively and had
great performance specs. I was very happy with it until the data center
upgraded the firmware in some of their Cisco infrastructure. After that I
started getting dropped packets varying with load. The heavier the load the
more dropped packets - as much as 8% which is way out of acceptable.

The data center folks were very cooperative and we tried a bunch of options.
It got better but not enough better. I have a large data client with
demanding requirements, so I decided to move to Cisco. I got a small
business switch. The specs were better than the SMC and it wasn't much more
in cost. It also has a very very nice GUI and IPV6 support which I'll need
for one particular client in about a month (that's scary!)

For the level of use this switch is wire-speed and easy to manage. I put it
in and with a little adjustment everything was great with virtually zero
dropped packets on our gigabit connections to the data center. The model we
got is the SG300-28 28-Port Gigabit Managed Switch. A version that has more
ports too.

Anyway, I'm very pleased. 

Oh yeah, before the SMC (which is a very nice switch too) I used to have a
10/100 2950 model and I hated it. It was a pain to manage and fortunately I
didn't need to often.

Hope this helps!

            -Stephanie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Chambers [mailto:joseph at michael-chambers.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 8:26 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:12429] Upgrading Switch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking at updating my switch which you can see here:
> http://cl.ly/image/2y3R2y0U2T0b - that is a 100 base non managed 16
> port switch which was cheap non brand I bought in a hurry. However; I
> have a opportunity to buy a Cisco Catalyst WSC2948G fairly cheap. Do
> you guys suggest that switch? Would I get better performance? What
> switch would you suggest that I could get under 200? Are managed
> switches slower then non managed? I know this has nothing to do with
> BlueOynx but I don't know who else to ask.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Joseph
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