Re: 3750s in the Core

I have used them out of necessity with about 500 users and it certainly can be done but besides what you mentioned with the backplane speed other factors are installation specific ie servers, apps, storage etc but in my case it worked ok.

--- On Tue, 6/16/09, loopback 99 <loopback99_at_gmail.com> wrote:

From: loopback 99 <loopback99_at_gmail.com>
Subject: 3750s in the Core
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 7:37 AM

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 - 07:52:19 ART