[BlueOnyx:12482] Re: Upgrading Switch

[shouldbe q931]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Stephanie Sullivan <ses at aviaweb.com> wrote:
> 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
>

That range of switches is from the Linksys side rather than being "Cisco"

They are a lower costs option that the Cisco switches that run IOS,
but in that price bracket I usually use HP Procurve

Cheers

Arne