Question : Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port

One of our network expert advised our company that there is huge traffic in our router which will be risky to our existing WAN.

They suggest a long term solution that require add on equipments - Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port (layer 3 switches) to reduce the workload of the router and can allow aggressive growth of PC.  However, equipments cost is about HK$60,000.

Do anyone know something about Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port?  Is it a router?  What's meant by layer 3 switches?  Can we include more IP addresses or PC with the use of this equipment - Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port? .....

Answer : Cisco Catalyst 3550 24 port

You can think of it as a 24-port, very fast 10/100 plus 2 gigabit port router. Because it is built on switching technology, not every packet gets routed, most are actually switched, and it does not support the full range of routing feature sets that the true routers do.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/cc/pd/si/casi/ca3550/prodlit/c355e_ds.htm
http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/cc/pd/si/casi/ca3550/prodlit/c3550_qp.htm
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