I believe you said 100 feet? Thats well within distance limitations of cat5
and 100baseT (100 meters). You could run a pair of 100baseT uplinks.
Alternatively, you could use the a WS-G5482 1000BaseT GBIC (sometimes
reffered as a stacking connector), if I remember correctly these only work
as full-duplex, so essentially it's a 2gig uplink. They use Cat5 cabling so
distance limitation is 100 meters. The G5482's run ~ $225.
You could use the GBIC-SX, but now your talking fiber plus ~$450 per GBIC,
much greater distance, approx 1800 feet, but thats overkill for what you
describe.
I have a new higher education customer who was given a quote to rework his
campus infrastructure from a hub based (mostly 10baseT) 3Com environment to
a switched 10/100/1000 Cisco environment. The designer quoted out LX GBIC's
(up to 10 kilometers distance) for all of the fiber runs, the longest fiber
runs was 1000 feet! and SX GBICs for all of the switch uplinks (most were 5
feet max between switches) We saved the customer a couple dollars by using
the G5482's and SX GBIC's on the fiber runs.
just my $0.02
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Subject: How to connect 3548 switches [7:1889]
I need to connect two 3548XL switches that are on separate floors. The
distance is around 100 feet between the switches. Can I connect these
two switches using either a 1000BaseSX module or the 1000BaseT module
(not sure if the distance is too far for this one)?
If I am able to connect the switches using the 1000BaseSX module, I am
limited to 100MB or will I get 1GB connectivity?
Thanks,
Jeff Walzer
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