Abstract

Dell Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of its PowerConnect 3348, an enterprise edge switch against the performance of 3Com Corp.'s SuperStack 3 Switch 4400 and Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Catalyst 2950. All devices provide 48 Fast Ethernet ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Tolly Group conducted zero-loss throughput tests of bidirectional traffic streams of 64-, 512- and 1,518-byte frames in a complex port-mapping scheme.