Re: 3750s in the Core

Sometimes whether they want to spend the money or not you have to advise
them right way then when it does not work they will not blame you. I would
push for the 4500.
Never enough money to do it right the first time.
Always enough money two do it right the second time lol.

If it were me I would not want to put my name on it. I think Andrew is right
it will work at first then they will want to do more stuff(as always) and in
six months(hypothetical) it will be outgrown.

Just my opinion I have been in these situations before.

Tony

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:37 AM, loopback 99 <loopback99_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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