10GE access switch router

Tue Sep 28 21:01:43 UTC 2004

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Robert Blayzor wrote:

> Frederic NGUYEN wrote:
> > Is anyone of you awared of the existence of an access switch router 
> > (L2/L3) with GE interfaces and 10GE uplinks? I'm looking for something 
> > small (around 1U to 2U). Is there any vendor selling such a product?
> 
> http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/prodpdfs/products/Summit400_DS.asp

The Summit 400 is an excellent L2 unit but a bad L3 unit. It is
route-cache based with only a few thousand cache entries. Put more than a 
thousand flows (flows=destination IPs) on it and it'll choke.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se