Price Comparison
 Let’s compare the price of complete xLswitch solution in High-Avalability configuration to ServerIron XL/TCS ($4.5K), taking into account the price of hardware as well as software.
In failover-ready configuration you will need 2 Foundry switches, i.e. the price is $9K
For xLswitch we will need 2 Dell 1550 server (933MHz, 256M RAM, 2 eth) – list price $1399 each and xLswitch promo pack. Total cost is $5.3K – more than 40% discount (SWsoft can also offer 10% discount on these Dells sold in bundles with xLswitch, so the price will be $5K, when bought directly from us).
The following table summarises prices (street, US dollars, unless noted) for similar complete solution for various load-balancing products:
| Product |
Hardware |
Software |
OS |
Total |
| SWsoft xLswitch |
$2,500 |
$2,500 |
- |
$5,000 |
| TurboLinux TurboCluster |
$2,500 |
$4,000 |
- |
$6,500 |
| Zeus Load Balancer |
$2,500 |
$8,000 |
- |
$10,500 |
| Microsoft AppCenter |
$2,500 |
$5,400 |
$1,700 |
$9,600 |
| Resonate CD on NT |
$2,500 |
$8,000 |
$1,700 |
$12,200 |
| Cisco CSS 11050 * |
$11,500 |
- |
- |
$11,500 |
| Foundry ServerIron XL/TCS (2 pcs) ** |
$9,000 |
- |
- |
$9,000 |
| Foundry ServerIron XL 8-port (2 pcs) *** |
$11,000 |
- |
- |
$11,000 |
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| Comments: |
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| *) |
This cheapest member of CSS family does not support standby configuration.
Boxes that does do not have prices announced yet (known to be in over $20K range) |
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| **) |
This cheapest known hardware solution is discontinued - Foundry Networks issued End-Of-Life statement due 12/31/2001 |
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| ***) |
Note that the list price for ServerIron XL is $8K per box. $5.5K is the best offer we found on the Net. |
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