Hi all,
We are moving to a new location and figured may as well upgrade the
infrastructure.
We currently have 3COM 24 port switches from the late 90's, if I had to guess
and its time to send them to rest.
I have been reading and trying to get a solid feel for which way to go , and as
always there is a plethora of data out there that says "Spf+ hands down" or
CX4, or even cat6,
Everyone seems the have "the perfect answer" and of course they all conflict.
and I hope not to start a thread war on this list.
Let me give a breakdown of what will be in play here
Small office (< 50 users)
PC's all gigabit
Phones all megabit (VOIP)
6 servers;
Exchange
Citrix/ TS (Hyper-V)
OwnCloud (Hyper-V)
File Server
Print Server
SQL (all users connected 24x7)
2 DC's
We are considering getting a NAS (10GB supported)
The other heavy traffic will be from video rendering and CAD, we would like use
something like backburner to spread the rendering, or maybe build a dedicated
rendering server (still up in the air)
all servers, switches, and possible NAS will be in the same cabinet, so
distance is not a factor in terms of connecting to the switch, only the PC's
will require runs greater than the 10 meters
I would like also welcome any reccomendations on switches as too
TIA,
