> > Look there really are 3 tiers for network equipment. The first two > tiers all give wire speed performance and have managed layer 2 and 3 > options. The last tier is for consumer home use. > > Tier 1 might have high-end Cisco, Juniper or Nortel (and others) that > have modular enclosures redundant power supplies and heavenly price > tags. These are typically used in large enterprises that can afford > them. > > Tier 2 might have Dell Powerconnects and HP Procurves and Cisco 2000 > series products. These are good stable well performing products and > are gobbled up in heaps by small and medium businesses. These are the > usual choice for small enterprises and come in managed and unmanaged, > layer 2 of layer 3, power over Ethernet of not or a combination of > those. > > Tier 3 contain your Linksys, DLink and Zyxel brand products. They > basically just get the job done, but might need reset every now and > then and probably can't run more then 2 ports at a full 1GBe > simultaneously. They are for home use and are prices as such. Some > will be better then others and some might be very good, but they are > not designed for business use and thus shouldn't be used as such. > > -Ross I had a reseller in here yesterday, and apparently the linksys (higher end) lines are being merged into the cisco lines. So the linksys gear will just be branded Cisco. I am not sure if this is all linksys gear, or just what they cal the higher end stuff. But I am trying to confirm from a cisco rep. Wonder how it will effect the above mentioned tiers which in general were true. d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090324/7bda256e/attachment-0005.html>