On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:05:21 am Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > We have a Cisco core switch doing all the Layer 3. We have a mix of > Dell PowerConnect 3448, 3548, 5348, and 5448 switches connecting back > to the Cisco. This 3XXX and 5XXX lines of PowerConnect switches has > been solid, even the PoE versions, and the pricing is more appealing > than the pricing of extreme networks, juniper, transistion networks. > Haven't worked with the 28XX series Dan Rue mentioned, but for the > price it looks like a good bet. > > Had a couple Netgear managed gig switches at a remote location at one > time. Ran fine while I was on site, then started doing flaky things > (dropping from gig to 10 megabit, dropping the connection entirely, > lots of retransmits and errors) a few months down the road. We threw > the cable qualifier on all the structured cables and patch cables and > everything passed, so we replaced the Netgear switches with Dell > PowerConnects and haven't had an issue since. Those Dells switches are not vastly different from the Netgear ones. In fact the Dell switches are rebranded SMC switches, about the same level of confidence inspiration. -- Bret Baptist Senior Network Administrator bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612) 676-1946 x117 Providing Internet Services since 1995 Web Development ~ Search Engine Marketing ~ Web Analytics Network Security ~ On Demand Tech Support ~ E-Mail Marketing