The EX2500 is a rebranded switch (not Juniper's own). The EX4200
supports 2- 10Gb ports via option slot, and the EX4500 has 40- SFP+
ports supporting 10GbE and 1GbE media (with ability to increase to 48
ports if you really wanted to...). The EX4500 is brand new and the
virtual chassis function might not yet be shipping on it. Could be
worth a look, though.

Ken Spickler Sent from iPhone. Srry for tpos.

On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Greg Whynott Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca
wrote:

the EX2500 does have 10Gbit. guess I should of looked more before
responding. 8)

-g

On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Ken Spickler wrote:

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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