Hello everyone
I have 2 questions:
1. Imagine you want to connect your building floors (2960X) to your core ( 3850 ) using copper because your manager didn't accept fiber optic installation! Do you pick 2960X with 2 SFP+ uplink and use external transceiver ( fiber to copper ) to achieve 10Gb ? Or pick 2960 with 4 SFP and use cisco GLC-T to achieve 1Gb? I personally prefer GLC-T because third party vendors are not my choice ! But your opinion is really important to me. I mean, do you use external media converter or use cisco GLC-T ? Have you ever had any experiences like it ? Does Cisco advice external media converters ? I couldn't find anything in Cisco web site. ( Media converter in backbone !>!?!?!?!)
Note: we are going to use Cross Stack Etherchannel in our design , so media converter must be 100 percent reliable
2. Does GLC-T support Cable CAT 7 S/FTP ? I mean, our backbone cabling is CAT 7 so if we pick GLC-T it must be compatible. Cisco says it's compatible with Cat 5 but we have already cat 6a f/utp and GLC-T and it's working just fine .
