In a 10Mb environ, what the heck! I would speculate that double-up won't make an ROI out of consolidation.
However, this brings up a nasty little problem I'm looking at, and I might phrase this another way. "How many cascaded switching devices can exist in a broadcast domain without creating unacceptable latency in the network?" I see some scary practices with repeated arrays of inexpensive switches, "RAIS", if you will. Each time a new workstation room is set up, the answer is to cascade more and more unmanaged hub/switches (sorry Cisco, it's a money thing) on the rack or down the copper to the room, or both. While the sweetness of low cost is succulent, surely there is a theoretical limit of how many members of a "RAIS array" one can cram into a building. So, boy and girl wonders, I've heard the magic number of "7". Anyone want to "do the math"? Very best and happy Friday, G. VP OGC > Subject: Switch Design Question [7:39888] > I am looking at this configuration: > > [PC]---[Switch1]---Fiber---[Switch2]---[Switch3]---[WirelessBr > idge]---distance2miles---[WirelessBridge]---[4Switch10Mb]---[R > outer]---[ISPInternet] > > The switches are all consist of 10Mb ports. The question. > Whould it not be > a better design to take out switch2 and switch3 and replace > it with one > switch with more ports. This would elimate one switch to > traverse when the > clients are accessing the Internet. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=39901&t=39888 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
