Cisco 3560-C Series

[wij]

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!

 

[wij]

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...