Linksys GIG v's Cisco Gig
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Posted by Gary on October 14, 2006, 2:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options a Cisco costs $3000 If I do not need any of the bells and whistles like VLAN's/QoS etc. can I assume the Linksys will perform at the same speeds and performance. As Cisco have bought em I assume they were becoming a threat in some way. G | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Walter Roberson on October 14, 2006, 2:18 pm
Please log in for more thread options >If I do not need any of the bells and whistles like VLAN's/QoS etc. can I
>assume the Linksys will perform at the same speeds and performance. No, that's not a good assumption at all; it would be false for most inexpensive gigabit switches. And unfortunately it is often quite difficult to find independant reviews that aren't just a rewriting of the advertising brochure. Someone did point out an inexpensive linksys to me recently, for which I -was- able to find a positive independant review; it was the SD2008 (a design from a couple of years ago), and the review is at http://soltesz.net/sd2008/part3.html It's pretty good considering the price, but it does *not* get gigabit at minimum packet size (which is what Cisco measures), and the latency creeps up with packet size. The SD2008 is completely unmanaged. I found a number of reviews that says that the fan on it is quite noisy and that it runs hot; one review said it ran quiet and cool, so it is possible they changed the fan design along the way. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Gary on October 14, 2006, 3:44 pm
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> wrote:
>>I can buy a linksys GIG Switch for about $400 while the same port density
>>on >>a Cisco costs $3000 >
>>If I do not need any of the bells and whistles like VLAN's/QoS etc. can I
>>assume the Linksys will perform at the same speeds and performance. >
> No, that's not a good assumption at all; it would be false for most > inexpensive gigabit switches. And unfortunately it is often quite > difficult to find independant reviews that aren't just a rewriting > of the advertising brochure. > > Someone did point out an inexpensive linksys to me recently, for which > I -was- able to find a positive independant review; it was the SD2008 > (a design from a couple of years ago), and the review is at > http://soltesz.net/sd2008/part3.html > It's pretty good considering the price, but it does *not* get > gigabit at minimum packet size (which is what Cisco measures), > and the latency creeps up with packet size. The SD2008 is completely > unmanaged. I found a number of reviews that says that the fan on it > is quite noisy and that it runs hot; one review said it ran quiet and > cool, so it is possible they changed the fan design along the way. > Trying to find reviews of the SR2024 and tech sheet but there is precious little. Blurb says: The 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch provides non-blocking, wire speed switching Price comarison is $400 v's $Loads for anything Gig from Cisco. Gary | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Walter Roberson on October 14, 2006, 9:04 pm
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>Trying to find reviews of the SR2024 and tech sheet but there is precious
>little. Blurb says: >The 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch provides non-blocking, wire speed >switching Consider the SRW2024 instead -- at least you'll get WebView so you can do some remote configuration. The SR2024 and SRW2024 both review as having a loud fan. Real information... hard to find. There's some nuggets here, http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16833124049 I found a mid-sized thread from someone using the SRW's who couldn't get more than 300 Mbit/s throughput; no-one was able to come up with anything that helped his particular situation (whatever the actual cause was.) There was a useful resource in there, http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3485486 "Squeeze Your Gigabit NIC for Top Performance" I skimmed over lots of other links, but the rest was just fluff or ads or people asking whether anyone knew anything about them... | |||||||||||||||||||
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>a Cisco costs $3000