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Cisco Virtual Switch System wows Network World testers

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Jan 3, 20082 mins

Network World Clear Choice Testers recently put Cisco’s Virtual Switching System (VSS), launched last November to Cisco’s higher-end Catalyst switches, through it paces and concluded that it

set records for recovery times and throughput. The test involved Network World’s largest-ever benchmarks to date, using a mammoth test bed with 130 10G Ethernet interfaces. According to the testers,  VSS not only delivers a 20fold improvement in failover times but also eliminates Layer-2 and Layer-3 redundancy protocols at the same time.

Read the test results in full here.

In December, Phil Edholm, Nortel enterprise CTO in his blog slammed VSS and gave his reasons why Nortel’s  Split Multi Link Trunking (SMLT) technology, which has been available for a number of years, was a whole lot better. Our readers who commented failed to agree.

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