Recommend me a switch

Vertigo

Vertigo

Vertigo

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Hi,

I'm potentially looking for a couple of 24 or 48 port managed gigabit switches with at least one 10Gb uplink port to link them together.

Thing is I have no experience or knowledge of 10Gb so all the copper/fibre/SFP business is confusing me a tad.

Can anyone recommend or point me at some options? Obviously looking to spend as little as I can! :)
 
I was looking at HP initially but they seem to be in the same ballpark price-range. What's confusing me is that it looks like the 10G uplink ports on these switches need the relevant SFP modules adding to them so the base price of the switch is only part of it. I'm not sure what modules I need and whether they have to be from the same manufacturer or whether any make will do the job.
 
Basically need to connect the two switches to each other. We're looking at expanding our premises into the adjacent building so want to put one switch either side of the central wall with a 10Gb link between them.
 
Yeah, looking at HP, pricing seems to be around the £1k mark for a 24-port switch and then £600-ish for a direct attach SFP+ cable to link the two!
 
Actually, it seems that whilst the branded HP/Cisco/etc cables seem to cost a fortune, there are plenty of generic ones at less than a tenth of the price.

What's the difference? Any risks or harm in getting the cheaper ones?
 
S2KIP said:
What sort of network traffic are your clients using to justify 10Gbit?
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Well 10Gb may be overkill but I think 1Gb is going to end up being a bottleneck. It's just general office network traffic but, with our staff numbers continually increasing (hence the acquisition of the neighbouring unit), we'll soon end up with 20-30 people in there and squeezing all their traffic down a single 1Gb line doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

You could get two 48 port Gigabit switches as an example saving a fair amount of money and use LACP between the two to increase bandwidth.
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Yeah that's an alternative I have been considering, more so once I realised how stupidly expensive 10Gb links make things. Is there a limit to how many connections can be aggregated with LACP or will any switch which supports it allow me to use as many as I like?

A couple of big 48-port units where I could add extra links to the aggregate as needed might be a plan.
 
Maybe I'm worrying unnecessarily. Granted most of the time 1Gb is going to be more than enough, I'm just concerned about staff numbers rising in the near future and getting contention issues when moving large files around and so on.

We're going to have to buy some new switches regardless as I'm running out of ports so I guess the answer is a couple of 48 port units and start with maybe two in LACP and expand this if necessary.
 
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