3Com Switch 5500/5500G Family
3Com’s 5500/5500G product line offers excellent port diversity as well as good hardware and software specifications that meet the needs of corporate fixed switch buyers. (3/19/2008)

Price: $495

Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850 Series
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850 family is competitive because of its high PoE density and its strong security platform, but its introduction may have diminished Alcatel-Lucent’s investment protection in the eyes of its customers. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Cisco Catalyst 3750/3750-E Series
Cisco’s Catalyst 3750/3750-E is very threatening to competitors, with many diverse models, strong performance, excellent software features, and an investment protection story that most competitors have a hard time matching. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Enterasys SecureStack C-Series
The Enterasys SecureStack C-Series is threatening to competitors, with its PoE, Layer 3, and 10 GbE support, as well as its ability to play nice with its new siblings. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Extreme Networks Extreme Networks Summit X450e/X450a Series
Extreme’s Summit X450e/X450a series is competitive, because it offers good performance, Extreme’s ExtremeXOS modular operating system, and decent port diversity in a true stackable switch. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Force10 S-Series
The Force10 S-Series is vulnerable to competitors, despite Force10’s focus on the enterprise, by lacking in port diversity and limited PoE models. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Foundry Networks EdgeIron 24GS & 48GS
Foundry’s EdgeIron 24GS and 48GS fixed switches are vulnerable in the switching market, lacking the port diversity, Layer 3 capabilities, and PoE models found throughout its competitors’ product lines. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Nortel’s Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 fixed switches are competitive in the marketplace, but being slow to deliver software features and models takes some of the luster off this product family. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

ProCurve Networking By Hewlett-packard ProCurve Switch 3400cl Series
The ProCurve 3400cl line of fixed switches is vulnerable to competitors, because despite its ability to put pressure on the market with its pricing and lifetime warranty, it still lacks dedicated stacking and port diversity in the product line. (4/23/2008)

Price: $495

Purchase Reports Online Purchasing and downloading reports online is quick and easy. 1. Accept the license agreement prepared by our lawyers.* 2. Select the reports you wish to purchase by clicking the "Purchase" button just below the report name and description. 3. Follow the checkout steps on our secure e-commerce site. All information you exchange with the secure site cannot be viewed by anyone else on the Web. All information is confidential and is used for internal purposes only. Under no circumstance will Current Analysis sell or otherwise redistribute this information. We accept the following credit cards: 4. Once your credit card is confirmed, you can download the reports. Reports are in a PDF format. We recommend you view the reports with the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5. Special Offer: If you purchase two or more reports in one category, we will send you a free Head-to-Head product comparison in one business day. More information. Contact us for special requirements. *The license grants rights to a single user for internal business or personal use only. Please contact us regarding licenses for enterprise-wide use, external use, and reprint rights. Contact Information Email: Back to Top

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

Page count: 5-6 pages

Special Offer: Purchase two or more Product Advisors and get a free Head-to-Head product comparison of those products at no cost. Get more information.

Top

• 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.

Top

---

• 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

Purchase Reports Online Purchasing and downloading reports online is quick and easy. 1. Accept the license agreement prepared by our lawyers.* 2. Select the reports you wish to purchase by clicking the "Purchase" button just below the report name and description. 3. Follow the checkout steps on our secure e-commerce site. All information you exchange with the secure site cannot be viewed by anyone else on the Web. All information is confidential and is used for internal purposes only. Under no circumstance will Current Analysis sell or otherwise redistribute this information. We accept the following credit cards: 4. Once your credit card is confirmed, you can download the reports. Reports are in a PDF format. We recommend you view the reports with the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5. Special Offer: If you purchase two or more reports in one category, we will send you a free Head-to-Head product comparison in one business day. More information. Contact us for special requirements. *The license grants rights to a single user for internal business or personal use only. Please contact us regarding licenses for enterprise-wide use, external use, and reprint rights. Contact Information Email: