I think Juniper's EX4200 and EX4500 provide similar functionality as
part of their "virtual chassis" technology.

Ken Spickler Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Greg Whynott Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca
wrote:

Cisco's 6500 series of routers/switches have a feature known as
VSS, which allows you to configure 2 physical switches into 1
virtual switch. this allows you(amongst other things) to split LACP
bonds between physical devices and offer a nice active/active fail
over solution. The draw back is its only offered on the
6500's. HP's new group H3C has the equivalent to VSS, IRF. The
cool thing about IRF is its offered threw out its product line.
you can take a pair of rack-top access switches and virtualize
them, then have every server in the rack LACP bonded to the pair of
them.

is anyone familiar with this technology on this or other switch
vendors' kit? I have to make an effort to find at least 2-3
vendors who offer similar a similar technology/feature and request
BoM/Quotes. Requirement is at least 6 10Gbit ports, 4 1Gbit, 2 U
or slimmer, and redundant PSUs.

So far I"m looking at the s5820x-28s from HP/H3C, which appears to
be a sweet deal.

danke! -g

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