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07-09-2019 08:46 AM
I am curious whether or not there is a means to tell how much traffic a core switch can handle to decide the best product to use. For example if this switch is doing intervlan routing, has 100 vlans and 1000 users, vs. a switch that has 200 vlans and 5000 users. We are trying to decide the best switch to purchase depending on the circumstances. (How much processing or users it can handle. What's the best way to ascertain this information? Thank you.
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07-09-2019 09:10 AM
To make it right solution, this required lot of input what kind of services to offer for users.
best suggestion contact local SE or Partner who can help you visiting the site, taking requirement and make design based on the requirement and provide BoM.
Right now cisco suggesting Cat 9600 as core module, Cat 9500 also act as Core Switch.
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07-09-2019 09:10 AM
To make it right solution, this required lot of input what kind of services to offer for users.
best suggestion contact local SE or Partner who can help you visiting the site, taking requirement and make design based on the requirement and provide BoM.
Right now cisco suggesting Cat 9600 as core module, Cat 9500 also act as Core Switch.
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07-10-2019 06:43 AM
For practical use, I'd like to find out just what will put a load on my processor, and just how much it can handle. Perhaps talking to a cisco professional may be the answer.
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07-09-2019 10:23 AM
User count, except for total MAC number of entries, isn't often much of a consideration either.
What you "size" a network device for is to handle a certain amount of traffic (which can vary much by kind of hosts and applications, i.e. number VLANs and/or number users, alone, tells you very little for capacity needs),
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07-10-2019 06:45 AM
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07-10-2019 07:14 AM
actually the newer gear from Cisco does be cheaper , so if you bought a 4500 now it would be more expensive than a new model 9k , when they push the new product they have better deals and discounts ,we just went through this with them on a massive ILCM globally and we were about 15% cheaper with the newer products and then also get the longer life span on newer kit and faster hardware
also good tool
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/switch-selector.html
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07-10-2019 09:00 AM
