The company I work for has about a dozen of our 100+ locations connected with MetroE (instead of VPN). Most of these locations are Radiology offices. The MetroE locations have beetween 100mbps and 1gbps connections and are currently running on 9+ year old L3 gigabit switches. I would like to have full L3 capabilities on the new switches and I don't foresee the need in the near future to upgrade much more than a couple of ports to 10gb. The current switches are HP 2910al-24g and they rely on a java web interface for config or a telnet/ssh session that seems to always think that there are too many people connected (when there are none). Command line config is a must and gui a nice to have. I could foresee running OSPF or possibly BGP on them with a few hundred routes in the near future, though the current setup is all static routing. We are not loyal to any particular brand as the only other routing devices on the network are sonicwall TZ and NSa firewalls. Budget will probably be $3k or less per device and requires 24+ 1gbps ports and possibly a couple of 10g ports (not required).
I would love to know what others would purchase with these requirements in mind.
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