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connecting 60Gb backbone between 2 buildings

Eby Mani
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What is the best & least expensive way to build 60GB backbone network within 2 buildings which are less than 400 metres apart.

Building A has the following,

  1. about 10 Servers with 1000T connectivity,
  2. 5 nos of 48Port Gigabit stackable switch with 4 X 1G SFP uplinks.
  3. 200 Workstations

Building B has the following,

  1. about 5 Servers with 1000T connectivity,
  2. total 40TB NAS Storage,
  3. 4 nos of 48Port Gigabit stackable switch with 4 X 1G SFP uplinks.
  4. 130 Workstations

Say, as of now the connectivity between A & B is 1Gb thru OM3 6core MultiMode fibre.

Option 1

Get 2 nos of 4506-E chassis with Sup7L-E, 12-Port 10GbE (SFP+) module & 24-Port 1GbE module. Aggregate 6nos of 10GbE using OM4 12Core MultiMode fibre.

Option 2

Get 2 nos 4900M with 8port half card and TwinGig modules for uplinking from stackable switches. But there is some bottle neck, related to come connectivity issue, which i don't remember .

Is there any better solution to do this relatively simple and least expensively ?.  Or should we go with OC-192/768 ?.

Thanks in advance.

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I was looking at transceiver module compatibility pages and note that the new Nexus 3064 is 40 Gbps-capable.

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