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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2679)	5/12/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 14638

A great post from the Network World Message Board. Brook Moore - 10:42am May 12, 1999 EST (34.) L3 Switch Performance I have yet to see performance an issue in the L3 Switch market. So I would say it comes down to 3 relevent issues. 1. - Cost per port... This could be Gigabit or 100BaseTX/FX. 2. - Manufacturer that you are comfortable with. 3. - Edge solution to compliment Core L3 Switch solution. From what I have seen Nortel Networks Accelar / BayStack 450 line compliment each other the best. 3Com comes in a close second but lack port density in their lower end CoreBuilder 3500, The 9000 makes up for that but you miss out on some of the feature sets needed for QOS and the like. Lucent just has not hit me yet as a L3 Switch company, in fact I think their L3 expertise is lacking behind most everybody. Cisco has yet to show me a working L3 Switch, they are still positioning the RSM type solution. The up and coming has to be Xylan. The Betas I have seen show a great feature set and nice compliments on the edge, of course they ARE the Switching company. If you are waiting to see what happens this could be the solution for you depending on the cost. In response to why would you need L3 switching as a solution. Although you can have 500 or even 1,000 nodes in an IPX, IP LAN environment if the cost is low (and it is getting there)and you can improve over all performance for Video Streams and VOIP, why not do it. The end users will love you for it. p.s. Not to L3 Switch sounds like a Cisco cop out... Brook Moore Senior Network Consultant