Am finalizing the design of our new corporate network. It will consist of the following:
Work Station Access - 3548 XL Switches - 2 per floor (one East / one West) ; total of 14 for seven floors. Each side of a floor will be a separate VLAN (Subnet). Switches will have 2 1000Base-SX GBICs. One GBIC will connect to fiber running to opposite closet/3548 Switch on that floor for redundancy. Other will terminate into a Catalyst 3508 XL Concentrator switch at the Core..
Server and WAN access: Other 3548 's will be "Giga Stacked" to form access stacks for Servers, Firewalls, WAN, and Internet access. These stacks will be connected to the Core 2948G-L3 's via
802.1Q "Channel Group" VLAN trunks.
Distribution/Core: Consist of 3 3508XL Switches to aggregate the GE fiber from the 3548''s. Also connected to the 3508's will be 2 2948G-L3 Switches for routing function.
Current plan is to assign one 2948G-L3 to "West" subnets, and other to "East" subnets. Each 2948G-L3 attached to 3508's via one fiber GB Ethernet. Other GB Ethernet will connect the two 2948's together to keep inter-Server traffic off backbone.
Questions:
1) Planing to utilize Spanning Tree for the East-to-West recovery link (if link to 3508 is lost) Will work? Better design?
2) Should these 3508's be connected together via GigStack Modules or just plain 1000B-SX ?
3) Was thinking about interconnecting the 2 2948G?s together via GB Ethernet to keep the Server to Server traffic off the 3508 Backbone. Any comments?
