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Will Marcouiller
Asked: 2011-02-02 13:04:59 +0800 CST

What router to choose between a 3620 and a 3640 to work with 3500 series switches?

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This question is issued from the following:
Will a Cisco 2514 router work properly with a Cisco Catalyst 3500 series switch?

Following the inner requirements, I have searched for a more recent router. As such, I have found a 3620 and a 3640 routers.

As mentionned in the linked question, these routers are to be connected with 3500 Series Cisco switches.

What router would I profit the most from:

  1. Considering performance;
  2. Considering equipment ease of use.

I am no system administrator but a developer understanding most of the basics about networks, and have already installed some networks, but no Cisco stuff so far.

Thanks for your kind guidance! =)

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  1. Best Answer

    Well both are 'end of sale' models so you need to be aware of that, otherwise the 3640 has a 100Mhz processor, 20Mhz quicker than the 3620 (equating to nearly double the throughput somehow) and the 3640 has 4 slots, the 3620 only 2 - otherwise they're very similar indeed. The both run the same software so there's no ease of use difference that I'm aware of, other than extra ports to be configured of course.

    Hope this helps.

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