Switch recommendation

I'm looking at purchasing a switch. I pulled up a few to choose
between:

Dlink DGS-1248T
Netgear GS748T
Linksys SRW2048

Anyone have any information or recommendations I should know about?
Is there someone else that I should consider? Anyone know why some
"equivalent" products are nearly double the price such as the Nortel
switches? These are all Layer 2. Should I be considering a Layer 3
switch? The Netgear GS748TS-100NAS is only a few hundred more.

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:58:16 -0700, betty wrote:

> I'm looking at purchasing a switch. I pulled up a few to choose
> between:
>
> Dlink DGS-1248T
> Netgear GS748T
> Linksys SRW2048
>
> Anyone have any information or recommendations I should know about?
> Is there someone else that I should consider? Anyone know why some
> "equivalent" products are nearly double the price such as the Nortel
> switches? These are all Layer 2. Should I be considering a Layer 3
> switch? The Netgear GS748TS-100NAS is only a few hundred more.

Perhaps you could enlighten me as to the issues. I had assumed that aside
from speed ratings a switch was a switch.

> Perhaps you could enlighten me as to the issues. I had assumed that aside
> from speed ratings a switch was a switch.

Reliability, support, management tools, throughput, collisions, etc.

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:58:16 -0700, betty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm looking at purchasing a switch. I pulled up a few to choose
> between:

> Dlink DGS-1248T
> Netgear GS748T
> Linksys SRW2048

> Anyone have any information or recommendations I should know about?
> Is there someone else that I should consider? Anyone know why some
> "equivalent" products are nearly double the price such as the Nortel
> switches? These are all Layer 2. Should I be considering a Layer 3
> switch? The Netgear GS748TS-100NAS is only a few hundred more.

You don't give much info about your situation, so:

1. Large business, small business, home?
2. What kind of NICs in the machines to be connected:
10/100, 10/100/1000?
3. How much switch management do you want/need to do? What
kind of stats do you want to get? Is a web interface
necessary? Would you rather have a serial console
(command line) interface?
4. Is there an absolute cut-off price?
5. How much traffic? (It's difficult to determine the
aggregate throughput of most switches. Some companies
publish their numbers, some don't.)

Lately I've been buying Dell PowerConnect 6224 and 6248,
mainly for their aggregate throughput, for the good
web and serial console interfaces, and good support
from Dell both from their website and by phone.

This is in a medium-sized business with gigabit NICs in
the office machines. We need to look at stats occasionally.
We didn't have an absolute cut-off price, just cheaper is
better. Our traffic is growing tremendously.

--
Dale Dellutri <(E-Mail Removed)> (lose the Q's)

I'm not actually in the ProCurve part of HP, but I suppose I do still
have a soft spot for them

http://www.hp.com/go/procurve

there are any number of switches there, from unmanaged to managed to
"web" managed (via net only, no serial port) from which to choose.

rick jones
--
firebug n, the idiot who tosses a lit cigarette out his car window
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

On Aug 28, 8:58 am, betty <betty111...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at purchasing a switch. I pulled up a few to choose
> between:
>
> Dlink DGS-1248T
> Netgear GS748T
> Linksys SRW2048
>
> Anyone have any information or recommendations I should know about?
> Is there someone else that I should consider? Anyone know why some
> "equivalent" products are nearly double the price such as the Nortel
> switches? These are all Layer 2. Should I be considering a Layer 3
> switch? The Netgear GS748TS-100NAS is only a few hundred more.


Well just to conclude this thread, I decided to go with the Nortel
BES1010-48. More money but a better product.