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Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850E Series
Alcatel-Lucent’s OmniSwitch 6850E is the youngest fixed product in the portfolio and possesses most of the features that modern enterprise LAN’s demand, balancing efficiency and performance and doing so with a compelling price point. (12/6/2011)
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Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Avaya’s Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series is a popular, pedigreed product family with a mix of models and additional software features that compete nicely with other models in the marketplace. (12/6/2011)
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Brocade FastIron CX Series
Brocade FastIron CX provides a capable software feature set, competitive performance and density, and possesses redundant power supplies for some system resiliency in business-critical deployments such as VoIP and video. (12/6/2011)
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Cisco Catalyst 3750-X
Cisco’s 3750 Series remains one of the most capable and flexible fixed switching platforms in the industry with features, port & power options, and price points to meet most enterprise switching needs. (12/6/2011)
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Enterasys C5
The Enterasys C5 is threatening to competitors because of its port diversity, 10GbE support, PoE+ support, competitive pricing, and the emphasis on security coupled with policy management that Enterasys brings to all of its switching products. (12/6/2011)
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Extreme Networks Summit X460
Extreme’s X460 stackable is competitive in the market as it functions as a high performance access device in addition to being a capable aggregation and small core switch due to good performance and reasonable port diversity. (12/6/2011)
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Juniper Networks EX4200 Line
Juniper’s EX4200 line of fixed configuration Ethernet switches threatens competitors with a higher stack count, a higher total port count, and the features that the majority of enterprise customers are seeking in a switch today. (12/6/2011)
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Product Assessment Report Information

Report Contents

  • Current Perspective Rating
  • Product Strengths & Weaknesses
  • Product Buying Criteria
  • Product Metrics

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Fixed Switching Buying Criteria

  • Performance

  • Scalability

  • Manageability/Ease of Use

  • Total Cost of Ownership

  • Port Diversity
    • Port Diversity is the amount of different and varying port types available in a given product family or chassis. This denotes the deployment flexibility the product has from a port perspective.

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Fixed Switching Product Metrics

  • Physical Characteristics
    • Device Class
    • Primary Target Market
  • QoS Features
    • Total Number of Transmit Queues Per Port
    • Total Number of Receive Queues Per Port
    • Strict Priority Queues
    • Rate Limiting Support
    • Rate Limiting Granularity
    • Classify by IP DSCP/TOS
    • Write/Re-write IP DSCP/TOS
  • Protocol Support
    • 802.1w Fast Spanning Tree
    • 802.1s Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
    • 802.3ad Trunking
    • 802.1x User Authentication
    • Network Login
    • IGMP Snooping
    • IP Routing
    • IP Routing Protocols
  • Interface Support
    • 10/100Base-T
    • 10/100Base-T with 802.3af
    • 100Base-FX
    • 10/100/1000Base-T
    • 10/100/1000Base-T with 802.3af
    • 1000Base-X (GBIC or SFP)
    • 10G - Fixed Optics
    • 10G - XENPAC
    • Other (Specify Type and Port Count)
    • Special Modules (Non-line Cards)
  • High Availability
    • Redundant Power Supplies
    • Non-Stop Code Upgrade
  • Performance
    • Aggregate Switch Throughput
    • Forwarding Rate
    • Non-blocking Wire Speed
    • Switch Forwarding Latency
  • Pricing
    • Switch Price
    • Expansion Module Pricing
  • Support
    • Standard Warranty
    • Enterprise Maintenance Contract
  • Product Class Ratings
    • Performance
    • Scalability
    • Management/Ease of Use
    • Total Cost Of Ownership
    • Port Diversity

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