5632FD equivalent

[subnet11]

Hi Everybody,

Witch HP Switch and Cisco Switch are equivalent to this one ?

[Flintstone]

Hi subnet11,

In the Cisco World I think a similar switch is the Cisco 3750 with 12 or 24 SFP ports?

CheerZ

[Dominik]

The Cisco 3750-X have also the gigabit based SFP slots as the ERS5632FD.
But you can only equip the 3750x with an etra module with 2 10Gig Uplink ports.

The ERS5632 has 8x internal 10gig ports.

Not very familar with the HP products, do HP have a stacking technology for their Access switches ?

Cheers

[Michael McNamara]

You could look at the Cisco 3560 or the Cisco 4900 series, I'm not familiar with the HP product line.

[Aggie87]

Guys,

The link should help a little.

http://www.demoavaya.com/LANCAT/#Home

[Aggie87]

Subnet11,

Do you have one of the 5632FD in production?

[Aggie87]

Guys,

I just received information about the Avaya ERS 4850GTS and the ERS 4826GTS.  Check them out and compare to Cisco 3750.

[jfarinha]

Has anyone had any experience with Alcatel Lucent switches? I had a presentation on the equivalent to the 55xx series, the Omniswitch 6850, and the 9000 series seems to be a good 5632 alternative...

http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com/?product=OmniSwitch6900&page=overview

However, I don't know anyone who has ever used them or managed them, and training is not as abundant as for Cisco or other alternatives, so I am taking it with a grain of salt...

I would love to hear other people's opinion...

[bylie]

I know of another university nearby that uses Alcatel Omniswitch gear for their network and they are quite happy with it. I think the main difference today is going to be the software running on those boxes as a lot of the hardware internals today is made up of merchant silicon and thus also used by other vendors in comparing products. The following link http://etherealmind.com/merchant-silicon-vendor-software-rise-lost-opportunity/ explains this much better than I can.

[subnet11]

Subnet11,

Do you have one of the 5632FD in production?

Soon in approx one month time from now on

[Michael McNamara]

I have 10 of them running a high-speed 10Gbps MAN utilizing dark fiber ring.

They're running Layer 2 with MSTP to prevent looping and provide recovery in the event of a fiber break.

It's been working great for the past 6 months now. Who says you need a $50,000 DWDM or SONET mux.

Cheers!