Suggestion for brand new Access switch

[Herald Sison]

Hi Gents,

any suggestion what is best option for a new access switch? i have 2960x and 3750X here used in production and we are planning to expand so i need to add 2 or more access switches but 2960 and 3750 are both EOL already so any suggestion for new access switch that can be managed through CLI only L2 switch Lan base and most of all cheaper.

thank you everyone.

[Leo Laohoo · Accepted solution]

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@Herald Sison wrote:

only L2 switch Lan base and most of all cheaper.

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Talk to your Cisco AM/SE.  The "cheapest" Layer 2 only switch is Catalyst 1000.

Catalyst 1000 runs on the same "classic" IOS found in 2960X/XR and IE4k.

[Herald Sison]

thanks sir. we can configure this through CLI right?

[Jitendra Kumar]

Yes, you can configure those switches by CLI and GUI as well.

Thanks,

Jitendra

[Leo Laohoo]

Yes.  CLI is supported.

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

if you're considering for a stack switch, you could check cisco catalyst 9k (9200 or 9300).

[Herald Sison]

Hi Sir,

thank you for the suggestion but stacking is not an options because the new switches will be deployed to 2 different parts of the warehouse and a building.

[Leo Laohoo]

Catalyst 9200/9300/9400/9500/9600 is neither cheap to buy nor cheap to operate. 

It is not cheap to operate because IOS-XE (memory) leaks like a sieve and needs a full-time staff to monitor the CPU and memory (control-plane and data-plane) on a daily basis.  

Normal memory leak

Above is a "typical" control-plane memory utilization of a Catalyst 3850.  I have similar "upward trend" report for 9300.