I have three campus sites linked by fiber. Right now they are on a single link, but in the near future they will share three links of different speeds, one 500 Mbps and two Gb, that will come in at each site. Right now the network are distributed over functional but obsolescent SG300 switches, each of which is configured individually.
Ideally, I'd like to stack the distributed switches and have multichassis etherchannel among the three sites and possibly over two additional 10-port access switches.
My research so far suggests that the affordable and familiar route may be the old Cisco 3850 series, probably the 24T-L so that the uplinks can be 10 Gb modules.
Is this a practicable direction? The budget is <$3000, not much, so it may be that we have to settle for what we've got. The new gear is both too capable and unaffordable for our application.
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