Wednesday, August 1, 2018

4500s instead of multiple 2960x

My job is preparing to open a third branch (SMB) which will be their biggest one. Approximately 125 wired devices, 53 which are wired user and the rest being mixed with camera, WAP, IP phones and IoT. I was thinking instead of purchasing several 2960x for the access layer, to purchase a 4507E+R modular switch with 4x 48G line card (2 of which will be PoE).

Camera, IP phone and data traffic will be running on the network but isolated via vlans. About 7 or 8 vlans planned out so far.

Is this worth the investment? Instead of getting several 2960x and 3800 series for IVR, get the modular which would allow for future expansion. Or would this be overkill?

Thanks!



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