Abstract

BATM, Ltd. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its T5 Compact, a stackable hybrid switch that offers 48 10/100 Fast Ethernet copper ports and two Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, against the Cisco Catalyst 2950G-48. The Cisco switch also offers 48 10/100 Fast Ethernet copper ports and two fixed Gigabit Ethernet Interface Converter (GBIC)-based 1000BaseX uplink ports. The Tolly Group evaluated the steady state, zero-loss (less than or equal to 0.001%) bi-directional (full-duplex) frames per second (fps) throughput of both switches using a variety of frames sizes in a port-pair configuration in which Fast Ethernet port 1 mapped to Fast Ethernet port 25, Fast Ethernet port 2 mapped to Fast Ethernet port 26, etc and one Gigabit port mapped to the other Gigabit port.