What should I replace two Cisco 2960 with needing full gigabit speeds?
I'm looking to replace two Catalyst 2960's. These switches are doing everything I can imagine they need to do, only I want all ports to be running at gigabit speeds. What should I be looking at?
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A version of the 2960 with 1Gb ports, or you could look at the HP procurve line
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/products/switches/index.aspx
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/products/switches/index.aspx
for L2 switches these days I pick Procurve every time, the lifetime warranty gives me a nice warm feeling...
Cisco switches come with lifetime warrantys as well for some models (I think in response to Procurve) however support is not free. Procurves use different management commands, so there may be a learning curve. However I do find that they have a bigger range models with different features. You can get a Gigabit switch from them for only several hundred, but the features will be limited. Where with Cisco it cost much more, but basically every feature is in their starting model. I think both types of switches are good.
Depends what you need.
Depends what you need.
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Cisco is over priced over complex hardware.
I made the switch to SonicWall and will never go back!