You can mix & match 3750 boxes and stack up to 9 of them together into a virtual chassis. The newer 3750X platform even has field replaceable parts.
For your 2970, take a hard look at the capacitors. They are of a vintage when there was considerable problems across the industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Dale On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Mike wrote: > Hi, > > For the second time in 7 months, I had a 2970 go south on me. I get a power > light, and thats about it and no console no nothing. The thing appeared to > have some sort of trouble earlier in the day with it interrupting routing > briefly between some routers but then it settled down, dying later all of a > sudden. No smoke, opening the box shows nothing scorched, and I'm just beside > myself trying to figure out what can be done. I would love to be able to > justify a 6500 for the redundancy features and plug in card archetecture, but > I'm comfortably working within the 24 gige ports and 4 sfp's of the 2970. Is > there anything between the 6500 and 2970 that gives me the redundancy of the > 6500 with the smaller form factor of the 2970? I an justify spending more > since I can't deal with the downtime of a critically important switch going > down, I just need some pointers on what to look for. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > 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/
