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2950 Stacking Question

andycho
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Can the WS-C2950-24 be used in a stack with teh WS-C2950C-24. The description of the WS-C2950-24 is it is a standalone switch, while all of teh Ws-C2950C-24 i have sold are stackable. Customer needs 11 of the cheaper switches, but some will need to be stacked. I am not sure if the cheaper WS-C2950-24 is stackable.

HELP!!!!!

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Prashanth Krishnappa
Cisco Employee
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WS-C2950-24 has only 24 10/100 ports and no GBIC-based 1000BaseX uplinks. The WS-C2950C-24 has 24 10/100 ports and two fixed 100BASE-FX uplink ports. Hence you cannot Gigastack these switches.

Unfortunately, I thought as much... Thank you for the reply.

Regarding the WS-C2950C-24...

I need to stack 5 switches in an IDF, with 1 of them connecting to the fiber drop back the MDF. I assumed that 1 of the 100-FX ports could be used for the fiber drop connection.

1. is this a correct assumption?

2. do you know what is required to stack the 5 switches?

When you say stacking, do you mean to just connect these switches together?Since neither of the switches have 1000baseX ports, you cannot gigastack as explained in the following page

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/150.html

Thanks again - and sorry, first time user of this system, so i just reposted the ? again.

To clarify... Yes - I need to install 5 of these switches together in a rack. They are "stackable", or at least the tech specs state so. So, wondering what is required to connect these together as 1 stack in the rack.

Can you point me to the online tech specs. They might be referring to WS-C2950G's which have 1000baseX ports

this link states "stackable" -

i was under the assumption one of the 2 100Base-FX ports could be used to connect to the fiber patch panel that connects back to the MDF...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps628/ps630/index.html

kmataranglo
Level 1
Level 1

since you can not go with gigabit, you could always "stack" them with a ether channel. you can bundle up to 8 fast ethernet ports for a total of like 800mb

that should be enough for most thingies

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