[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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