Switch feedback

Rocky McGaugh rmcgaugh at atipa.com
Wed Oct 31 12:10:21 PST 2001


While the HP4000M is a nice switch, i believe it only supports
8 trunks. The Summit 48 is a much better switch if your budget
can afford it.

-- 
Rocky McGaugh
Atipa Technologies
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Javier Iglesias wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We are about to build a 19 bi-athlon cluster for academic 
> research in the field of genetic programming, and large 
> neural networks. 
> 
> Then comes the difficult choice of the FastEthernet switch... 
> 
> HP procurve 4000M :
> -> http://www.hp.com/rnd/products/switches/switch4000/summary.htm
> is regularly mentioned here as being a good price/performance 
> choice.
> 
> Extreme Networks Summit 48 :
> -> http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/datasheets/summit24.asp
> was proposed to us by the netwoks guys of the campus.
> 
> 
> Do you have any comment/experience on the Summit 48 ? 
> Any other >40 port (channel bonding) FastEhternet switch to 
> propose ?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your valuable help !
> 
>   --javier
> 
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