bigspoon1980
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Hello,
I currently have a mixture of 5 x 3com 24 port switches and 2 x cisco 2950 48 port switches and 1 x 24 port cisco switch.
The 3coms are alinked via i think a back bone cable, and then the ciscos are just linked via 1 port on the 3coms. The ciscos are then linked via a gigabit daisy chain.
I have been asked to put all servers on a gigabit switch and get rid of the 3coms.
My question is where it work just individually replacing the 3coms with cisco 2950's like for like or going for something like a cisco 6500 series catalyst?
Other considerations are implementing departmental VLANs. This concerns me as the cisco 2950 do not do layer 3 routing, so i would have to point everything our internal router. Will this cause performance issues as well.
We have about 250-270 devices on the network.
Kind Regards,
Phil.
I currently have a mixture of 5 x 3com 24 port switches and 2 x cisco 2950 48 port switches and 1 x 24 port cisco switch.
The 3coms are alinked via i think a back bone cable, and then the ciscos are just linked via 1 port on the 3coms. The ciscos are then linked via a gigabit daisy chain.
I have been asked to put all servers on a gigabit switch and get rid of the 3coms.
My question is where it work just individually replacing the 3coms with cisco 2950's like for like or going for something like a cisco 6500 series catalyst?
Other considerations are implementing departmental VLANs. This concerns me as the cisco 2950 do not do layer 3 routing, so i would have to point everything our internal router. Will this cause performance issues as well.
We have about 250-270 devices on the network.
Kind Regards,
Phil.
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I am not too sure on budget we have to spend..
but i would like to put together a low cost solution that improves the network, a reasonable solution that incorporates ip telephony, and some thing like the 6500 series solution!
but i would like to put together a low cost solution that improves the network, a reasonable solution that incorporates ip telephony, and some thing like the 6500 series solution!
Just keep in mind, if you're talking "ip telephony" there's A LOT to it - to do a quality implementation. You're talking about implementing QoS in your network - which to be done well is not to be done lightly.
Also, the "you get what you pay for" rule applies.
Perhaps a good, better, best scenario for managment.
Also, the "you get what you pay for" rule applies.
Perhaps a good, better, best scenario for managment.
1. You can stack up to 9 3750's to support as many ports as you need.
2. Yes, you can uplink each of the 2950's as needed with no problem
Low cost solution and 6500 do not belong in the same sentence. The 6500 is VERY expensive.
2. Yes, you can uplink each of the 2950's as needed with no problem
Low cost solution and 6500 do not belong in the same sentence. The 6500 is VERY expensive.
An alternative to the 6500 is the 4500 chassis based solution for about 1/2 the money and probably very cost competative to the stack of 3750's.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_data_sheet09186a008033a3bd.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_data_sheet09186a008033a3bd.html
ASKER
there are 2 issues.
1. just getting a pair of 48 port 3750s does not over the amount of ports i need instead of the 3coms.
2. if i get rid of the 3coms and now have 2 48 port 3750's as recommended above and left with the 3 x 2950's that all communicate via the "two fixed GBIC-based 1000BASE-X uplink ports" will these ports be able to talk to the 3750's in the same way?
kind regards,
Phil