RE: 3750s in the Core

I was in the exact same position at a previous job -- money was tight, and
it was a small/medium sized warehouse environment. We went with stacked
3750-12Gs for the core and it worked out quite nicely. The other cool
thing, is that with stackwise, you can actually configure etherchannels
whereby the links terminate on separate switches in your stack :)

The biggest place I did this at was a 1 million sq. ft warehouse. Keep in
mind, they didn't even run an IGP just static's up to the edge router, but
it worked very well for what they needed.

Regards,

Joe Astorino
CCIE #24347 (R&S)
Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:38 AM
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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 - 12:18:20 ART