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Which Cisco Switch is right for us,

It's time to replace our ageing Cisco switches as we are moving to a gigabit phone system. We have been quoted for Cisco 3580 - POE 5k for a 24 port and nearly 10k for 48 port - my boss fell off his chair.

This is our network 50 users split over three office's Site 1 has break out to internet, Site 2 & 3 link via 20mb lines.

We need to split the VoIP traffic via a vlan but that is pretty simple setup I would say.

My question is do we need to 15K on Cisco switches? Can we come down the Cisco product ladder a bit? We are being advise to use tier one ie Cisco or HP - but haven't been told why? The new phone system I tested over a cheap Gigabyte NetGear and it works fine.

I need to justified to my boss why we should spend 15k - any advise would be great.

Current config is from a Cisco 2950 which isn't POE but stills works.

Any advise or suggestion would be great.

Thanks
Ian.

Switch#
Switch#show run
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 1567 bytes
!
version 12.1
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname Switch
!
!
ip subnet-zero
!
spanning-tree extend system-id
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/1
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/2
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/3
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/4
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/5
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/6
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/7
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/8
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/9
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/10
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/11
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/12
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/13
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/14
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/15
switchport access vlan 216
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/16
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/17
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/18
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/19
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/20
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/21
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/22
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/23
no ip address
!
interface FastEthernet0/24
no ip address
!
interface Vlan1
ip address 192.168.2.199 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
ip http server
!
!
line con 0
line vty 0 4
login
line vty 5 15
login
!
end

Switch#

VLan

Switch#show vlan

VLAN Name Status Ports
---- -------------------------------- --------- -------------------------------
1 default active Fa0/1, Fa0/2, Fa0/3, Fa0/4
Fa0/5, Fa0/6, Fa0/7, Fa0/8
Fa0/12, Fa0/16, Fa0/17, Fa0/18
Fa0/19, Fa0/20, Fa0/21, Fa0/22
Fa0/23
2 24to241 active
216 VLAN0216 active Fa0/9, Fa0/10, Fa0/11, Fa0/13
Fa0/14, Fa0/15
1002 fddi-default active
1003 token-ring-default active
1004 fddinet-default active
1005 trnet-default active

VLAN Type SAID MTU Parent RingNo BridgeNo Stp BrdgMode Trans1 Trans2
---- ----- ---------- ----- ------ ------ -------- ---- -------- ------ ------
1 enet 100001 1500 - - - - - 0 0
2 enet 100002 1500 - - - - - 0 0
216 enet 100216 1500 - - - - - 0 0
1002 fddi 101002 1500 - - - - - 0 0
1003 tr 101003 1500 - - - - - 0 0

VLAN Type SAID MTU Parent RingNo BridgeNo Stp BrdgMode Trans1 Trans2
---- ----- ---------- ----- ------ ------ -------- ---- -------- ------ ------
1004 fdnet 101004 1500 - - - ieee - 0 0
1005 trnet 101005 1500 - - - ibm - 0 0

Remote SPAN VLANs
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Primary Secondary Type Ports
------- --------- ----------------- ------------------------------------------

Pete Long

Whats wrong with replacing your 2950's with 2950-X's? Or Meraki?

Ian Price

ASKER

I don't know that's the point of asking on here.

Do Cisco make a 2950 POE? and what is a Meraki is that a brand of switch?

Thanks
Ian.

Mal Osborne

POE injectors are easy enough to source for around $10 ea. 50 would be $500. That would let you power each phone from a wall socket, while retaining the existing non POE switches. Bit messy, but it is a option that should work.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-POE-24-12W-External-Injector/dp/B00HXT8LPW/ref=sr_1_12?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1472810773&sr=1-12&keywords=poe+injector

Ian Price

ASKER

What about the 2960 POE?

Predrag Jovic

My question is do we need to 15K on Cisco switches?

Most likely not.

What about the 2960 POE?

2960X series is more than good enough for VoIP. But you should implement end-to-end QoS for VoIP (so L3 device should be also be configured for QoS)

Craig Beck

Agree with Predrag. 2960X would be more than enough for what you need. 3850 is extreme overkill.

Ian Price

ASKER

"So L3 device should be also be configured for QoS" -

I am correct in saying that Qos would be setup on the router which is level 3 - we use Cisco 2800 and although I don't have access to the configuration I am pretty sure that's how it's configured.

Would that make sense?

Thank Ian

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Thank we are going with 2960's