[cisco-voip] Redundancy to the endpoint

[Voll, Scott]

Save your money on Smartnet and buy an extra or two switches ;-)  

Smartnet has nailed me a time or two also.  Try having a CMM blade as
your main VGW and them take 3 days to get you a new one......
Fortunately it was pre-production, but it still makes a guy VERY
nervous.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mike Armstrong
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:09 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Redundancy to the endpoint

Cisco's campus model stops being redundant at the access layer switch,
which 
(according to cisco) should have high port density.  When one of those 
fails, devices connected to those dense ports go dark if they're only 
connected to one switch.  We had a 3750-PoE-48 go down last Friday, and
48 
phones are now blank.  Cisco initially said they didn't have another one
to 
send us until July 21, but I persuaded them to send a 3560 as a
temporary 
replacement, so with a minor configuration change we should be back in 
business later today.  Nevertheless, losing 48 phones is still a big
deal 
for us, and even if we had the money to support a fully-redundant
switch, 
there's still a significant outage while the fault is detected and the
patch 
cables are swapped.  I wonder what other folks do in anticipation of a 
high-port-density switch failing, and if there's a likelihood of
improved 
redundancy at this level in the future?

Mike Armstrong
UF/IFAS CREC
Lake Alfred, FL 

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