[tech] Re: UCC uplink network upgrade
Grahame Bowland
grahame at angrygoats.net
Thu Jun 26 12:02:40 WST 2003
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:46, David Cake wrote:
> We have approval for the network upgrade.
> A UCC contribution of $1000 would be appreciated - please
> could someone from UCC contact Thim Lee.
> I will contact GR Services today for them to begin work.
> We are going with Alloy switches.
> My only questions about the switches - would using 100MB
> rather than Gigabit switching increase reliability/available of
> replacement parts/media converters in case of failure significantly?
> I'm worried more about reliability rather than the additional speed
> gigabit will supply (given that fully switched 100MB is so big an
> improvment anyway).
Go the 1Gb, it's as common as 100Mb now and it's more future-proof.
Given you're going for internal modules on the switch, I'd say it's more
likely you'll be able to get 1Gb modules in the future.
A few departments are running 1Gb internally now, including some of the
colleges.
Cheers,
Grahame
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