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I have a customer that is interested in building a fiber ring network. Original discussions centered around building a network with approximately 15 devices on the network. So we sold and implemented 14 Cisco Catalyst 2960S switches and 1 Catalyst ...
Amit, Thanks for the feedback. Any idea how the network will respond if we simply merge the two existing rings together? We have a 2 hour window where we can do testing, and I'm looking for some information on what will happen when we merge th...
Unfortunately the customer has already implemented the 2 fiber rings. And yes, they are using Spanning Tree. To go to a hub and spoke network design at this time would be VERY expensive, as it would require different core switch, plus all new fiber...
The first image below shows how the 2 fibers exist currently. ph0 consists of 15 Catalyst 2960S switches with 2 10GB ports (in/out on the fiber ring), and 2 Catalyst 4948M with 4 10GB ports (2 for in/out on the fiber ring, 2 for connectivity to VMwa...
