Depends on your throughput needs. Have you looked at the 2960-S series? It's pretty much a 2960 with 10G stack cables. It would be a cheap way to allow your environment to scale without needing routed hops or spanning tree. Also, the 29xx switches are pretty well oversubscribed. I'm not sure if that was ever an issue for you though.
You may also want to check your UPS if you actually had a power event destroy equipment. I can't think of a scenario where that would/should ever happen. You should be looking at smoked breakers/UPS equipment, not smoked network gear. If the same happened to your systems/disk infrastructure you'd probably be in serious trouble. On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mike <[email protected] > wrote: > Howdy, > > Drama yesterday, power outage, backups didn't last long enough to > keep us running all the way thru, and then we wound up with a smoked 2970 > switch.... 3 years of uptime however, thank you for that. > > Im sort of thinking about what the replacement is going to be. I can > see 2970-ts-e's on ebay for good prices but Id like to ask the wisdom of the > group if there might be a better choice in the 24 port gigE with SFP > category? Anything to look out for? Known bad Chinese capacitors or ? > > Mike- > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
