Moving some of the access layer from Cisco to Foundry.

[polm]

I've never used Foundry equipment before. And we are simply talking 24/48 port stackables to replace some of the acess layer which is running anything from old Cisco 2924's to the newer 3560.

What are some major differences I should be prepared for?

 

[spidey07]

The CLI is similar, the graphical on the foundry is pretty nice. It's been a while since I've messed with them but foundry normally does a single instance of spanning-tree for all vlans as opposed to cisco default PVST. Also check other spanning-tree defaults like if it's doing rapid by default.

Other than that the technology and operation are very similar unless you're doing advanced QoS or routing. IIRC foundry has a really nice application ASIC that tracks flows/conversations.