Buying a switch for your enterprise network can be a tough job. With so many high-performance devices competing for your budget, it's difficult to choose the right product. So, Network World and The Tolly Group have established the Switch Metric, a series of benchmark tests designed to help you determine which switch will offer you the best price/performance:
Crowning our new switch leaders
The first round of our testing. Read our report, sift through the data in several views, or download a spreadsheet with the results. 5/10/99.
Customers should press Cisco to support our Switch Metric test
Editorial and forum. In our editorial, we ask you to help convince Cisco to participate. In the forum, readers react. 5/3/99.
Switch Metric - Watch this space
Kevin Tolly on the state of the testing to date. 5/3/99.
Network World's article announcing the joint testing effort
Network World, 1/25/99.
The invitation sent to leading switch vendors
and additional information
on the Switch Metric tests.
Kevin Tolly's Network World column
Illustrating why judging switches strictly on a
price-per-port basis is a mistake. 9/21/98.
A complete list of the vendors invited to participate
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