Which vendor to choose for L2 and L3 switches?

Question

network hardware

Greetings, Comrades!
Advise good, problem-free (ie not Dlink'i), 1Gbs L2 and L3 level switches to create and steer Vlans. Cisco is expensive now, but I didn’t have much to do with others, maybe someone will point out a couple of good models.

Answer 1

If the question is so vague, then I worked closely, not counting ciscos, with HP - procury (cheaper) and komvar, with Huawei, Allied telesis. Everywhere there are nuances, pluses and minuses, but in general the pieces of iron are adequate - there were no special problems.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Without a clear description of the Wishlist and the budget and the like - a finger to the sky.
All switches have problems, all without exception. In different places.
On dlink l3 is undesirable, l2 works quite tolerably, although it depends and depends on features.
You can look at Extreme Networks. Normal pieces of iron, albeit with reservations. Well, what, cheaper than new tsisok
! But you overhead, of course.
You need to know the functionality you need, how many devices (what size cam you need), how many SVIs you need, how many vlans, and stuff like that.
For vlan, the ancient, stupid and cheap cisco 2950 will go as l2, and the equally ancient, but not killed cisco 3550 tank as l3. Naturally used. Expensive? Well then...
С такой постановкой вопроса берите любой, так я предполагаю, что это что-то типа small office, и там просто ребут коммутатора в случае чего не приведет к краху.