What to replace our Nortel 8600s with?

[Andy White]

Hello,

We have 2 x Nortel 8600s (now Avaya) that are 6-7 years old.  They have 96 1GB ports on each and we only use about 30 and the CPU average is around 2% and memory is 40% (256mb).  Going into 8600s we have 8 x Nortel 5520 48port gig switches.

We want to replace the 8600s at some point and I wondered roughly what Cisco device would possible suit us.  We are not after the best high end switches that we will never utilise, but ones that will help us grow for the next 5 years.

Here is a simple daig of what we have:

Thanks

[Andy White]

Here it is:

WS-C4506-E

WS-X45-SUP7L-E

WS-X4748-RJ45-E

PWR-C45-2800ACV x 2

[Gregory Snipes]

Do you have 220v power in use already? If you are not going to need POE, the 1400w power supplies can easily handle what you are doing and quite a bit of expation, plus they do not need 220v input power.