We like the 4500X and the Nexus 3548.
-Bill
> On Jun 17, 2014, at 15:59, "Jeremy Bresley" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 6/17/2014 3:13 PM, David Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>> Although Cisco puts this switch in the data center product line, the
>> Catalyst 4948E is nice for campus edge QoS/QinQ needs. It is 1RU, has 48
>> 1000BASE-T ports and four 10GE SFP+, dual PS, and has silicon-parity with
>> the Sup6 Catalyst 4500 line so has all the same QoS capabilities.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee
>> Starnes
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:02 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco model recommendation
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am in the need of a recommendation for a Cisco switch that is Layer 2/3,
>> 1U, AC powered and has the same rate limit capability as the ME3400 series
>> has and has 48 ports of 10/100/1000. Does anyone have any experience with a
>> model that would best fit this need? These would not be deployed in remote
>> sites as CPE devices like the ME switches. I just need the ability to do
>> rate limiting and policing of traffic in several office departments.
>>
>> I was looking at the 3650 series, but not sure if this has the same ability
>> to rate limit as the ME switches have.
>
> The Cat 3650 likely won't have anywhere near the capabilities of the ME3400
> for shaping/policing. Is there a reason you aren't considering the ME3600X
> as a replacement for the ME3400? The majority of the Catalyst desktop
> switches (29XX/35XX/36XX/38XX) do not do rate-limiting and are limited to
> DSCP/CoS based QoS features.
>
> The ME3600X is available with 24 10/100/1000 ports and 2 SFP+ or 24 SFP ports
> and the 2 SFP+'s. The ME3600X's are a service provider switch and support
> MPLS as well as all the other features like policing/shaping, routing
> protocols, QinQ, VPLS, etc.
>
> As the other suggestion said, if you want to look at a 4500-series box, I'd
> suggest the 4500X rather than the 4948E, we've got a couple of both, and the
> 4500X is Sup7E based, 16-40 ports of SFP/SFP+ 1/10G rather than the 4948E's
> older Sup6E-based with 48 10/100/1000+ 4 SFP+ 10Gs. (Assuming here that you
> don't need the 10/100 connectivity requirements still, in which case the
> 4948E might be a viable option.)
>
> Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley
> [email protected]
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