Why to sellect 3560 rather then 2960

[jorge.s]

Hi,

does any of you already had this question?

imagine you don't need routing, because that's done at backbone level, why to use then 3560 switches, instead of the 2960?

Jorge

[desai.jaideep]

Hi

The answer lies in Unified Communications rather than locking just in routing.

I need 3560 to power my IP Phones and Wireless APs.

Regards

JD

[andrew.butterworth]

On the surface the 2960 & 3560 do seem similar, however there are some (big?) differences.

No Layer-3 routing capability on the 2960, whereas the 3560 (all images) support IP forwarding. The IP Services & Advance IP Services also add the routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF & BGP as well as multicast routing.

PoE - The 2960 has no PoE capabilities, some models of the 3560 have 802.3af & Cisco Pre-Standard PoE.

QoS - Although the QoS architecture of the 3560 & 2960 (& 3750) are very similar the 2960 has a severe limitation when configuring ingress policers to interfaces - It can only police down to a minimum of 1Mbps (with 1Mbps increments) on 10/100 Interfaces. The 3560 allows a minimum of 8Kbps.

Andy