Friday, March 15, 2019

Single hand off or LACP from carrier?

We are in the process of re-configuring our network topology. We are working on creating a hub/spoke design over a city wide dark fiber to 5 of our offices. The dark fiber hand off to each of our offices is a Cisco 2960L switch. (We do not get access to these Cisco switches but we can ask for them to be configured any way we please.) Our in house switches will vary a little but most of them are Dell N4032F switches as our top of rack equipment. My question is: Would you have your provider configure the Cisco 2960L with just a single 10G SFP+ port connecting back to your equipment? Or would you rather have a 2x 10G LACP connection just as a cable redundancy in case of cable failure? We will be using short copper Twinaxial DAC cables as the cross connect cabling.



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