[c-nsp] Advice on Core Swithes / Routers

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:24PM +0000, Zoe O'Connell wrote:
> > A 6500/7600 will need more space, more power, and if all you need is 
> > 10/100, the much higher packet throughput for L3 stuff is likely not
> > necessary...
> 
> Just out of interest, do you not find that having switches uplinked at
> 1Gb/s unnecessarily limits the throughput of the solution? 

It really depends what the bandwidth requirements are - and if all switch
ports are only required to be 10/100, this doesn't sound too hard.  But
of course, if every single port is a separate VLAN and actually uses 50%
of the 100mbit, a 7301 won't be able to handle that...

gert
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