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cisco feature request for 3750s and other stackable switches

mrSS
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so, i asked this question a while back on the fourms: can you stack a 3750 switch over fiber.....the answer is no, but the virtual switching supervisor 720-10G for the 6500 can create one virtual switch using two 6500s...

how can we get cisco to come up with a way for access switches to be stacked over fiber similar to above supervisor?  i know of few of my site that would benefit from this...maybe they can come up with a vss appliance, similar to a media converter, to convert stackwise over fiber...then of course, you would need the same appliance on the other end....

thanks in advance

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Leo Laohoo
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If I was to hazard a guess, 3750X don't have much "oomph" left.  Cisco Sales have been instructed to agressively sell the 3850.

Next, the "feature" you want, Stacking via fibre, sounds more like a very, very old technology called "switch clustering" which first appeared as a feature during the Catalyst 3500XL-EN days.   This is still being supported by the switches.

Don't see any benefits with switch clustering, though.

my focus is not on the 3750s...my focus was the stackwise technology and the ability to use that technology over fiber...ALMOST as similar to the vsse supervisor 720....there are a lot of benefits of stacking switches...

james
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I could be very wrong, but I think its called VN-TAG, similar to fabric extenders for Nexus.

There are a couple of pictures on page 28-31 here:

http://www.cisco.com/web/CZ/ciscoconnect/2013/pdf/T-NET1-Catalyst-Jarry_Pilar.pdf

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