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The switches at my company are long overdue for replacement. It seems like every other week a port is dying and one or more people are down while IT tracks it all down.
Right now we have dlink dgs-1224t, no fiber connections or anything like that. There are ~8 24 port switches, some are daisy-chained to each other rather than connected in a star pattern off of a backbone switch (this is something they're saying needs corrected ASAP)
Any suggestions on what to replace them with? We need something capable of fairly high throughput.. IE for what we do 100mb won't work, I suspect 1000mb may even be a bottleneck especially with the current configuration.
Right now I've been recommended the netgear gs724
http://www.amazon.com/GS724T-300-Pro.../dp/B00358MP02
Any thoughts on this? I've read a little bit about 10gb backplanes but my guys are telling me this would be HUGELY expensive.. Like instead of $4k we would be talking $40k. I'm thinking the best setup would be 1000gb ports for each client and then 10gb port to the backbone switch.
I have no needs for monitoring, QOS or true layer 3 stuff. An easy way to setup ACL via mac address would be nice. I've also been shown switches that let you login via IP and see which ports are bad and that sort of stuff which would be nice.
Thanks!
Right now we have dlink dgs-1224t, no fiber connections or anything like that. There are ~8 24 port switches, some are daisy-chained to each other rather than connected in a star pattern off of a backbone switch (this is something they're saying needs corrected ASAP)
Any suggestions on what to replace them with? We need something capable of fairly high throughput.. IE for what we do 100mb won't work, I suspect 1000mb may even be a bottleneck especially with the current configuration.
Right now I've been recommended the netgear gs724
http://www.amazon.com/GS724T-300-Pro.../dp/B00358MP02
Any thoughts on this? I've read a little bit about 10gb backplanes but my guys are telling me this would be HUGELY expensive.. Like instead of $4k we would be talking $40k. I'm thinking the best setup would be 1000gb ports for each client and then 10gb port to the backbone switch.
I have no needs for monitoring, QOS or true layer 3 stuff. An easy way to setup ACL via mac address would be nice. I've also been shown switches that let you login via IP and see which ports are bad and that sort of stuff which would be nice.
Thanks!