I don't think it is really offensive, but I don't see that Gig to the
desktop will do much good as most of the client machines don't have the
system bus necessary to handle 100Mb Full Duplex, let alone gig.
A good switched network with a good backbone or if you can, put it all on
one switch so you can take advantage of the full speed of the back plane of
the switch, is probably more than good enough for what you need.
Now, if you deal with a lot of Video, multimedia, etc, there are other
options that would probably be better suited for you to use such as ATM for
guaranteed Class of service or even an Etherchannel NIC in your server.
All IMHO of course <g>, and YMMV depending on the specifics of what you are
actually doing on your LAN. If you are seeing congestion, and have already
implemented dedicated switched ports to every heavy bandwidth client/user,
bought a super high end server and your backbone isn't getting saturated,
then there might be an application for Gig to the client or server but I
would be a really obscure or really unique, special case for this to happen.
I do a lot of work for some pretty heavy multimedia people in the "Movie"
industry and with exception of the really big $50,000.00 unix boxes, the
machines internal bus and HD are usually the bottlenecks. Proprietary things
are being done bus and drive card-wise to move the data faster than what's
normally done such as proprietary bus architecture or specially tuned
fiber-channel, etc.
I would put a sniffer on some of the ports or look at your switch stats to
see if you have a congestion problem before I could really recommend gig to
a client machine though.
Again, IMHO and from what I have seen.
Scotty
I apologize in advance for the Off topic Subject
If it offensive to the list I will desist immediately..
Here goes..
I want to implement a Gigabit Solution for a Department in my company
that deals with Large Images, Video and Multimedia..
They are a Publishing House that deals a lot with graphics.
Currently it's a MAC and PC environment (NT Server)
but more Importantly the current NIC's are 10/100 MB
with CAT 5 cabling.
My Question :
Does anybody have experience with GB Solutions ?
Any recommendations ?
Any Specific Products ?
Web Sites , Implementation Guides etc etc..
The Costs associated with this Migration ??
Thank you in advance
Regards,
Donny
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