Re: 10 to Auto/Auto or 100 Full on Cisco swich cost advantage

On Mar 20, 12:45 pm, cghoeri...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2007-03-20, kellysc <kell...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I work for a large company that to date has stuck with the standard
for remote sites to leave the switch ports set @ 10 mbps on client
connections. However, we are fully wired with Cat 5 cabling
throughout the building and have had our server updated to run at 100
Full and have found that we could get the entire building updated to
100 on all clients...
<snip>
We all know the differences that 10 vs 100 will make to all clients
when it comes to network resources, but saying that is never enough.
<snip>
You made one statement that needs to be addressed. You said remote
site.

I don't think that's the only statement that needs addressing. I
think you'd be hard-pressed to find universal agreement with:

We all know the differences that 10 vs 100 will make to all clients

If the majority of your traffic is between these 10Mb/s clients, then
an upgrade to 100Mb/s interfaces will certainly make a difference.

But that's not how the traffic at remote sites of large companies
which stick with "standard" configurations usually looks.

The majority of traffic at these sites is usually between the clients
and boxes like the one you described as "our server". ...Or between
the clients and some systems on the other end of the remote site's WAN
link.

Are you sure the client NICs are your bottleneck?

/chris

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