The product makes a big difference. Are you planning to have one switch with 300 ports or 30 switches with 12 ports? Are you planning to use VLANs? If so will there be more than 64?
The traffic pattern makes a huge difference as does the network design. If you're using 30 switches daisy-chained with all the servers and Internet connection at one end, I'd say you're looking for either job security or a quick termination. If your design if for a large chassis switch like a 6500, you probably won't have a problem -- unless all your client machines want to load applications from a single server connected at 100Mbps. What is your *real life* application? My network has several thousand users over several hundred switches with mostly 100Mbps uplinks between switches. Life is fine until someone runs an IRC bot or multiple people start Kazaa/Morpheus/Gnutella/etc. Then we shut off their port. :-) We even manage to run multicast audio and video. Access switches include models 1900, 2900XL, 3500XL, 4006, 5005, 5505 and 5513. The core is 3-5513 with dual everything (well, the important stuff). One other question... How much money do you want to spend? Ken >>> "Jimmy" 09/25/02 02:17AM >>> hmm...Let don't talk about product. Just for a general view. Will a normal 100Mbps switch able to support 300 user? Is it realistic in real life application? ""Larry Letterman"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > which platform are you going to use for 300 users... > 6500 ? > 4006 ? > or multiple stackables ? > > Jimmy wrote: > > >Let say if i use a 100Mbps switch for 300 user for each floor. Will it be > >very slow? How do i really calculate the BW for each user. Doing an > >approximation? 100M/300 ? > > > >Cheers, > >Jimmy > > > >""Jimmy"" wrote in message > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > >>If i have to design network for 3 storey on a building. There are around > >>200-300 workstations in 2 storey each. Is it advisable to use Ethernet to > >>link them up. As for the other storey it is for admin purpose. The distance > >>is around 150m between the further storey. However it is possible to put a > >>switch/router at the middle for interconnect. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54069&t=54023 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
