Re: Switch recommendation

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:58:16 -0700, betty <betty111111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm looking at purchasing a switch. I pulled up a few to choose
between:

Dlink DGS-1248T
Netgear GS748T
Linksys SRW2048

Anyone have any information or recommendations I should know about?
Is there someone else that I should consider? Anyone know why some
"equivalent" products are nearly double the price such as the Nortel
switches? These are all Layer 2. Should I be considering a Layer 3
switch? The Netgear GS748TS-100NAS is only a few hundred more.

You don't give much info about your situation, so:

1. Large business, small business, home?
2. What kind of NICs in the machines to be connected:
10/100, 10/100/1000?
3. How much switch management do you want/need to do? What
kind of stats do you want to get? Is a web interface
necessary? Would you rather have a serial console
(command line) interface?
4. Is there an absolute cut-off price?
5. How much traffic? (It's difficult to determine the
aggregate throughput of most switches. Some companies
publish their numbers, some don't.)

Lately I've been buying Dell PowerConnect 6224 and 6248,
mainly for their aggregate throughput, for the good
web and serial console interfaces, and good support
from Dell both from their website and by phone.

This is in a medium-sized business with gigabit NICs in
the office machines. We need to look at stats occasionally.
We didn't have an absolute cut-off price, just cheaper is
better. Our traffic is growing tremendously.

--
Dale Dellutri <ddelQQQlutr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (lose the Q's)
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