topic Meraki Network Stack Design in Cloud Networking Platform

Meraki Network Stack Design

AbbyDoc — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:54:11 GMT

Hi,

in the attached diagram I am wondering if stacking and uplinking the stacked switches is valid configuration?

Regards

Re: Meraki Network Stack Design

MerakiGnome — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:22:51 GMT

Hi @AbbyDoc

On first glance I would say this looks like a suitable and resilient design.

im not sure what you mean by “unlinking” though?

Re: Meraki Network Stack Design

MerakiGnome — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:35:05 GMT

One point - you have a physical stack of core switches (425’s). Are you looking at stacking your edge switches and removing the individual uplinks from each switch to the core?

Some will be for this some will be against. Some don’t like having larger stacks.

Could you dual connect each edge switch back to the core across both core switches to give you 20Gbs etherchannel per switch? You have the capacity on your core to do so.

Re: Meraki Network Stack Design

AbbyDoc — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:30:21 GMT

@DarrenOC The physical stack has been removed in the new drawing and as you rightly observed, we will be using the uplinks between both switches at the core.

Again, you are right, we have been discussing the idea of having dual uplinks between each access switch and the core.

Thanks.

Re: Meraki Network Stack Design

AbbyDoc — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:33:24 GMT

@DarrenOC sorry, typo uplinking