Thank you all. One vendor I have been dealing with wrote back saying "the forwarding and switching capacity are the same as you pointed, however, the ASIC and CPU architecture is different. I believe this is why the price is lower, apart from the feature/hardware differences (L3, stacking)...". "as I understand, it will be a medium-high deployment in terms of size, with high-density wireless, therefore, I would avoid the small-medium business product line"   That's what got me thinking that there may be performance difference that they don't publish on the product page.  But why wouldn't they list that CPU spec for both, so the consumer knows there is a clear difference. I also think those classifications ("small business"..."medium campus") are suggested based on feature set and that they don'tt mean anything" ... View more