said by macallah:The 3745 is very noisy with all its cooling fans running at full speed 24/7.
Agreed with you there macallah, though IIRC when I was looking into a 3745 I did come across a webpage where a
person replaced the fans with quiet / lowflow fans with no impact to performance or temp alarms, and got a MUCH
quieter device overall.
said by macallah:it does not run a modern IOS and I like to tinker with it
Define 'modern'. IIRC Cisco did bring it up to the last revisions of the 12.4T IOS, and there's not much in
15.x that 12.4T can't do in my view.
said by macallah:Third it only has 100mbit connections if the cable system gets an upgrade eventually
said by macallah:what if the provider goes up in speed in the future? A 5510 with secplus license is over 2k.
Agree with you there. Don't know when consumer GigE connectivity will be available, but I want to be prepared for it,
and Cisco products seem to lag on it -- ASA5550 if that -- or are bloody expensive to do it -- ASR 1K w/ ESP2.5.
On the Juniper side, the SRX220 is VERY tempting at 8x GigE interfaces and 950Mbps (claimed) thruput.
Not sure what else in the enterprise arena people have come across that has GigE interfaces and Gig thruput with services on.
Regards