RE: 3750s in the Core

Its really going to come down to a question of what you need to do that
isn't supported in hardware. As soon as you start doing stuff in software on
a 3750 you very quickly hit cpu utilization issues.

If its just basic routing, a bit of QOS, STP etc then you should be fine.

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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
loopback 99
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:38 PM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: 3750s in the Core

Hi

Has anyone used or seen 3750's used as core switches ? We are currently
replacing our old obsolete HP switches with Cisco and my Company, like most
at the moment, want to make cost savings. Consequently they don't want to
spend money on 4500's in the core but instead want to put stacks of 3750s
instead. Are there any major disadvantages apart from the obvious backplane
speed issue that would make this a bad idea ? The proposed topology is the
typical collapsed core/distribution layer with access switches connected to
this. It is a medium sized network that will have approx 500 - 600 users.

Thanks,

L.

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Received on Tue Jun 16 2009 - 22:14:35 ART