Looking at working on my first "L3 switch" from Cisco. I'm good with most of the cisco routers I work with, but they are all "vintage" - I've got OSPF and BGP down, basic VLAN stuff and minimal QoS ...

The network design is basically 2 3550 layer 3 switches, at different buildings, connected with a 45 megabit metro fiber service. At one location (site A) there will be a small handful of servers of ...

Is Cisco gear high-priced but worth the investment because of quality support and advanced features -- or just plain high-priced? Cisco Systems Inc. is the dominant LAN switch vendor, both in the ...