[committee] action item reminders

Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri May 11 09:43:03 WST 2007


On Fri, May 11, 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> > This is a 24x 1000mbit switch? Why is the price so good?
> 
> Because its targetted as a workgroup switch, not as infrastructure.
> It only has a Web UI rather than CLI, and it has to be priced
> low to compete with all the other bullshit quality gige workgroup
> switches out there.

Also, the switch isn't going to do line-rate gigabit on every port in the
worst case (64 byte frames.) It'll easily do line-rate gige at 1518 byte
frames.



Adrian



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