3550. Good deal?

Is this price to good to be true for a cisco 3550 emi switch?
I am thinking of picking up three of them....

Cisco WS-C3550-48-SMI Switch 3550 with EMI 50 Qty Avail - eBay (item 310281764115 end time Jan-20-11 08:42:46 PST)

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mikej412

I paid $149 for a 3550-48 EMI a couple of months ago (for my Utility/Server room). The 3550-24 port versions were going for $125. But that was a vendor clearing out some of their upgrade trade-ins, rather than one of the regular used Cisco vendors.

The 16-20 listings only lasted about 3 days before they were snapped up (with the last group of 3550-24s probably going to someone who was just going to resell them at $200 each).

But that is a reasonable price from a good vendor.

wastedtime

I have bought a few things from them and they have fairly low prices. I have never had anything not work from them but sometimes they are a little banged up.

Netwurk

Something like this is a better deal

Cisco Catalyst WS-C3550-24PWR-SMI Switch w/ Inline Powe - eBay (item 170586374856 end time Jan-06-11 17:06:07 PST)

Inline power means the switch can do PoE

Comes in handy if you ever need to power up Cisco phones or access points

Just a thought

Good luck with your lab

mikej412

Just remember that Cisco is supposed to start verifying Smartnet contracts against downloads "in January."

Not sure how that is going to affect the guest level access to LAN Switch and Access Point IOS files. For the CCNP (and CCIE) you want the 3550 with EMI (or IPServices) IOS.

Netwurk

When I visited Cisco last month they were giving out IOS images to all the techs on USB thumb drives

Unofficially of course since corporate users need smartnet or whatever they call it these days

yawn

Have fun kids

Bl8ckr0uter

Netwurk wrote: »

Something like this is a better deal

Cisco Catalyst WS-C3550-24PWR-SMI Switch w/ Inline Powe - eBay (item 170586374856 end time Jan-06-11 17:06:07 PST)

Inline power means the switch can do PoE

Comes in handy if you ever need to power up Cisco phones or access points

Just a thought

Good luck with your lab

That might be something I pick up for my lab. We have a few 3560s at work. Bad ass pieces of kit for the price.

Too bad these are for my jobs lab....

mikej412 wrote: »

Just remember that Cisco is supposed to start verifying Smartnet contracts against downloads "in January."

Not sure how that is going to affect the guest level access to LAN Switch and Access Point IOS files. For the CCNP (and CCIE) you want the 3550 with EMI (or IPServices) IOS.

We have smartnet but thanks for the tip. That is very important and I didn't know about that.

Netwurk

Bl8ckr0uter wrote: »

That might be something I pick up for my lab. We have a few 3560s at work. Bad ass pieces of kit for the price.

Too bad these are for my jobs lab....

3560's rock We have them (and newer models) at work.

I buy all my home gear on ebay, Horizon, and Cables & Kits. At work, we recycle better gear than I have but there's not much I can do about that.

My boss does let us have cool things like GBICs and cables that they are tossing - even those I need to test with my BNC Plus tester as I am not going to let faulty accessories foul up my hard earned lab.

Funny thing about my BNC tester, I have never used it to test a BNC cable.

Bl8ckr0uter

phoeneous wrote: »

I just picked up an emi-pwr for $202 shipping included. I was looking at those from candela but they are originally smi's with emi flash. Not that it really makes a difference (or does it) Im just ocd like that.

They don't have any gig interfaces though.

Bl8ckr0uter

phoeneous wrote: »

https://www.candelanetwork.com/new/OEM/WS-G5483_GBIC__3rd_Party_.asp?part=WS-G5483;3rd;Party

So basically you shove that thing into the slot for the GBICs?

QHalo

Better deal and comes with rack mount brackets. Candela never includes rack mounts. Still a good company though. I've bought from them a few times. The 1841 I got from them looked brand new and had 256MB instead of 128MB of RAM too.

Cisco WS-C3550-48-SMI 48-Port w/EMI Switch Qty Availlbl - eBay (item 330513307790 end time Jan-28-11 13:33:13 PST)