05-07-2013 09:05 AM - edited 03-07-2019 01:14 PM
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
05-07-2013 03:13 PM
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.
05-09-2013 10:32 AM
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...
05-22-2013 06:33 PM
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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