The HP Procurve 2650 is a sexy little piece of hardware. It's a 1u high Ethernet switch with 48 Fast and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The gig ports are copper, but have mini-gbic slots if you want to use fiber instead. It's basically a Cisco 2950-G, but costs about $1,000, versus Cisco's $3,000.
Did I mention it supports basic layer three routing? For $1,000? We live in good times. Now all I want is a cheap managed 24 port Gigabit switch with basic layer 3...
Posted by pmk at March 8, 2003 5:15 PM