Abstract

IT managers who deploy a variety of switching devices in their networks need assurances of interoperability of these switches in order to maintain a functional network. In a world of ever-evolving standards and tight budgets, network managers evaluating new equipment need to know that the switches they purchase are interoperable with their current infrastructure. It is important to know which devices can interoperate with an existing Cisco LAN switch infrastructure.

ALAXALA commissioned Tolly to evaluate three of its enterprise-class LAN switches for Layer 2/Layer 3 interoperability with the Cisco Catalyst 3750-X and 6509-E switches. The evaluation found that the ALAXALA AX6604S, AX3640S-24T2XW and AX1240S-24T2C (Layer 2 only) switches all achieve a broad spectrum of L2/L3 interoperability including support for 10GbE LAN PHY interfaces, 802.1p/Q VLAN tags, link aggregation, Multiple Spanning Tree, PIM-Sparse/Dense Mode Multicast, OSPF, BGP4 protocols and more.