Recommendation

[mccullrr]

I have 6 dorms with all 4507 Catalyst Switches. I am getting ready to bring another dorm onto the network. Unfortunately, we do not have the money for a 4507. Was wondering if anyone could recommend a lower priced comparable switch. I was thinking of a 3560G? I really need to be able to do routing, vlans, and acls.

Thanks,
Becky

 

[techcontroller]

Becky,

If you are going to spend around $5,700 on a 3560G, you might want to look into just buying another 4507. For that $5,700 you are going to pay for 48 ports (gig mind you), you might want to see if you can't squeeze some more money from your source. The way I see it, you would pay $5,700 for a 3560G, and that's that, where as if you pay $7,000 for a 4507 chasis the blades, you have much more room for expasion and you have your routing capabillity.

If you can't under any circumstances pay for another 4507, look at a smaller version of the 4500 series (4506). You are going to pay a lot for 1 48 port switch (upwards of $6,800) and have no room for expanding.

If worse comes to worse, you can just buy the 3560G.

Tech

 

[chipk]

The 3560G with the IP image set will do routing, vlans, and acls. Actually, if you're just doing static routing, as it looks from your other post, I think the standard image will work for you...