On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 at 9:04am, Tim Mattox wrote
IMNSHO, Marketing Departments should be jailed... or at least not
allowed to do the "technical specs" pages for networking products.
And at a minimum, they need to be flogged with a wet noodle... :-)
After spending the last several days digging through said materials, a wet
noodle is decidedly *not* what I had in mind as the flogging implement.
FYI - here are some links to a variety of 48-port commodity GigE switches,
that may be worth looking at (but as another poster indicated, these
might actually all be the same switch built by an OEM and just rebadged.
One can only really tell by opening one up and looking at the PCB and chips
that are inside.):
SMC8648T TigerSwitch
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProductDetail&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1192
The SMC8748L2 I went with is here:
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1498
It's cheaper than the 8648T while apparently newer and with some "better"
specs. As I mentioned before, I'm decidedly skeptical and intend to test
it hard while I'm still well within the return period.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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