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I have three Cisco 2960 switches; one 2960G 24 port gigabit(20+4) switch and two 2960 48 port 10/100 w/two GB uplink ports. My thought for setting these up was to connect my servers to the 2960G switch and also uplink to each of the 2960 48 port switches into the the 1st GB uplink port. Can I also use the 2nd uplink ports on the 48 port switches to connect the two 2960's? Will this help or hinder performance? Add some redundancy? <br />
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I have 5 servers and approx 60 users/devices to connect.
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I have three Cisco 2960 switches; one 2960G 24 port gigabit(20+4) switch and two 2960 48 port 10/100 w/two GB uplink ports. My thought for setting these up was to connect my servers to the 2960G switch and also uplink to each of the 2960 48 port switches into the the 1st GB uplink port. Can I also use the 2nd uplink ports on the 48 port switches to connect the two 2960's? Will this help or hinder performance? Add some redundancy? 

I have 5 servers and approx 60 users/devices to connect.

Cisco GB Uplink Usage

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.