Re: Layer 3 switch model?

<alvaresangela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1175275244.535422.219750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm a college student & my final year project is to upgrade &
reconfigure my college network... The college has 700 PC's. It's an
adhoc network. I have recommended VLANS. In all there will be 7
VLANS.

i suggest you start with stating the problem you want to solve not how you
want to solve it.

once you have that the rest of the limits you have to work to get clearer.

So - QoS needed?
Power over Ethernet?
a few big switches or lots of small ones?

Or - start with some sort of reference design to show you how it is done,
and then try to translate that into something you can build.

Cisco have some good design docs that explain general principles as well as
how they suggest you apply their products - have a look at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns656/networking_solutions_design_guidances_list.html#anchor2

I want to know which model of Layer 3 switches I should
recommend to the college. It shouldn't be very costly. Please give me
your suggestions/ recommendations.

The design may get cheaper if you only use layer 3 in some locations - maybe
just for 1 or 2 core switches.

The rest of the devices could be layer 2 only, which are often cheaper (or
the same device, but without an extra L3 software licence).

Again - look at design and decide which features you need, then go shopping.


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Regards

stephen_hope@xxxxxxxxxxxx - replace xyz with ntl


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