Abstract

BATM Ltd. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its T4 Routing Switch, a modular stackable hybrid switch that offers 16 10/100 Fast Ethernet copper ports and two Gigabit Ethernet fiber uplinks. BATM also requested The Tolly Group to evaluate the T4 Routing Switch against a Cisco Catalyst 3550-24 that offers 24 fixed 10/100 Fast Ethernet copper ports and two fixed Gigabit Ethernet Interface Converter (GBIC)-based 1000BaseX uplink ports. BATM requested that The Tolly Group test the Cisco switch with 16 Fast Ethernet ports and two Gigabit ports. The Tolly Group evaluated the steady state, zero-loss (less than or equal to 0.001%) bidirectional (full-duplex) packet-per-second (pps) throughput and latency of both switches using 64-, 512- and 1,518-byte packets in a full-mesh configuration.