Looking for Suggestions

[cwm2111]

My company is looking into deploying a solution for our small multi-building campus. The 3 buildings sit on approx. 3.5 acres of land and includes a 2-level parking structure. The Main office is a 2-story 15,000 Sq Foot office building. We also have a smaller office 8,000 sq ft 2-story building and a 50,000 sq foot warehouse. We will have a 1 Gbps up/down Fiber connection for our Primary ISP.

Additionally, we will deploy a 500 Mbps Cable ISP as our backup/failover. ISP services will be deployed in our server room on the 2nd floor of the main office. Services will be provided to 150 employees (including Warehouse staff) Additional must-haves are:

Multi-Gig WAN and LAN capabilities.
802.11AX Wireless solution
Inter-office connectivity
Connectivity to and throughout the parking structure
Centralize management (local and remote)

I haven't worked with Cisco products in years so I am unsure which products would be right, or even which products work best with each other. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

[Reza Sharifi]

You can use the 9300 series or the 9200 series as the access layer switches and deploy them in each closet per floor. From there use 2 fiber uplinks to the main server room and main office. At the core of the network, you can use the 9500 series or the 9600 series (depending on the number of uplinks you have).

See datasheets below:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9300-series-switches/nb-06-cat9300-ser-data-sheet-cte-en.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9200-series-switches/nb-06-cat9200-ser-data-sheet-cte-en.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/nb-06-cat9500-ser-data-sheet-cte-en.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9600-series-switches/nb-06-cat9600-series-data-sheet-cte-en.html

HTH

[MHM Cisco World]

https://www.cisco.com › guide
PDF
Connector and Cable Specifications

This help you' after you select the cable length you need for you network' check the SPF need for this cable and lastly check the SW compatible with this SPF.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Is yours a SMB or Enterprise network equipment budget?

[Leo Laohoo]

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@Joseph W. Doherty wrote:
Is yours a SMB or Enterprise network equipment budget?

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I am with @Joseph W. Doherty on this.  First questions:  What is the budget for this shindig?

[cwm2111]

That is still in discussion.  Conversations are leaning toward an SMB deployment but an enterprise solution is still not out of the question. 

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Often a big, big difference is cost.  Sometimes not as big a difference in features, except when there are particular Enterprise only features you MUST have.

Often a question in reliability, between them too.  That's somewhat hard to compare, beyond, to me it seems, if you only use the most commonly used features, SMBs can work well, but if you start to use "exotic" features, you're more likely to bump into "software defects", and Cisco, doesn't appear to work as diligently to correct them.

[Leo Laohoo]

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@Joseph W. Doherty wrote:
Cisco, doesn't appear to work as diligently to correct them.

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Agree, however, I have seen bugs being corrected after they received "motivation" from really large Cisco clients.  

[Joseph W. Doherty]

"Agree, however, I have seen bugs being corrected after they received "motivation" from really large Cisco clients."

Indeed!

Last company I worked for was a very, very large Cisco client!

IS-IS, I believe, became available on the 3850s because my company wanted it, although Cisco didn't see it suitable for that device's market.

[cwm2111]

Thank you everyone this has been quite helpful.  I doubt the enterprise solution would bring much cost to value for me, and in my experience with SMB products from other vendors, they are usually less of a headache.  I'll look into that more, but again thank you for the feedback.  I was pleasantly surprised the community was quick to help.  I don't see that often.