Cisco 3560-C Series

wij · 21 Feb 2011 at 20:45

Has anybody been able to get hold of one of these yet?

I've been screaming at our normal suppliers for a few weeks now trying to get a demo unit or even some indicative pricing but nobody seems to know anything.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps11527/ps11289/data_sheet_c78-639705.pdf

Just what we've been waiting for, a little fully featured L3 switch with GigE PoE ports and nobody seems to want to sell me any!

TheKnat · 21 Feb 2011 at 21:44

I believe they were only announced like 3 weeks ago, so you may have wait a while before they become generally available.

bigredshark · 21 Feb 2011 at 22:21

I've had some time with them, they do what the spec sheets suggests (and don't do what it doesn't more tellingly). I don't know what Cisco want for them, I wasn't interested from a technical standpoint so didn't pursue it, it's yet another Cisco layer3 switch with a defective/incomplete IPv6 feature set. To date only the metro ethernet variants match the v4 and v6 feature sets, I'm not sure when or if Cisco are going to work out they need to sort that or loose our business....

wij · 22 Feb 2011 at 09:58

bigredshark said:
I've had some time with them, they do what the spec sheets suggests (and don't do what it doesn't more tellingly). I don't know what Cisco want for them, I wasn't interested from a technical standpoint so didn't pursue it, it's yet another Cisco layer3 switch with a defective/incomplete IPv6 feature set. To date only the metro ethernet variants match the v4 and v6 feature sets, I'm not sure when or if Cisco are going to work out they need to sort that or loose our business....

Cheers BRS.

We do a lot of temporary IPTV stuff so its mostly multicast IPv4 traffic but what with HD becoming the norm 100mbit access ports are a bit of an issue (at the moment we use lots of 3560-8's). Just the small form factor and passive cooling make it an ideal device to put into small offices or edit suites.

Interesting re the IPv6 spec, I'll have to give them a closer look now as it is our policy to not buy anything now that won't offer a complete feature set.

Shame Juniper don't make any compact switches as the EX2200 series we had on demo made a very good impression...

kefkef · 22 Feb 2011 at 11:21

Had a word, the first scheduled customer ship is 7th March for the 3960c and 21st March for the 2960c prior to that there are a few units floating around for trial.

bigredshark · 22 Feb 2011 at 13:55

wij said:
Interesting re the IPv6 spec, I'll have to give them a closer look now as it is our policy to not buy anything now that won't offer a complete feature set.

I should be clear, it's partially me moaning about stuff which doesn't affect everyone, my main complaint is the lack of IPv6 BGP support, all these layer3 switches will run v4 BGP and we use that a fair amount for CPE purposes (it's simpler, less resource intensive and just neater than redistributing on aggregation routers to just run BGP from the CPE). If they didn't run BGP at all I'd accept that but it's the lack of BGP for IPv6 while it runs v4 fine which annoys me...

I believe v6 multicast is also missing in action if it matters to you...

I need to make time to verify switching on the SRX platform is actually at wire speed (I understand it is), in which case I suspect Juniper will be getting another chunk of cash soon...