BB Switch Advice

[vishal.rane]

Hello

Our 4 different group will be sharing the same office floor  which was scattered earlier in different cities. Total number of Users would be around 100 and I already got 3 switches 2960 (48 ports ). Can someone suggest a good backbone switch where i plan to terminate all switches and create vlan. I will be responsible to manage all switches, ip address schema and support users.

Any suggestion

thanks

Vishal

[vishal.rane]

Hello

Are there any comparison tool from cisco to compare catalyst 3560 with 4500

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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L2 or L3?  Links between switches copper or fiber?  Edge ports FastEthernet or GigEthernet?  Expected traffic load?

For L2 you could use another 2960.  For redundancy, dual (stacked) 2960-S.

For L3 you could use one of the 3650 models, for redundancy, dual pair (stacked) of one of the 3750 models.

PS:

BTW, believe the latest IOS for some of the 2960s (-S models?) support very basic L3.