A lot of switches these days have gig ports, and most servers ship with gig cards, so where it used to be 10 at the desktop and 100 at the server, it is moving to 100 at the desk and gig at the server (or at least, etherchannel 4 nic's for high load servers).
I agree with you in some respects. For instance, a customer of mine recently upgraded their Internet connectivity, put a firewall in and a few other bits and pieces. They have a mix of 3500 and 2550's internally, I suggested a 2950 for the DMZ and a 1912 for the External, as the Internet connection is under a meg, so there is no point buying 100Mb. This gave 100MB from the dmz to Internal, and from the firewall to the external switch. However, for users desktops, if a company is going through the process of upgrading their LAN, it is probably just not worth keeping 10Bt, for the problems it "may" cause in the future, should the company start using high bandwidth applications. My 2 p Symon -----Original Message----- From: Scott Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2003 18:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: is 10baseT dead? [7:65077] I don't know why I started to think about this topic over the weekend, but I got to thinking about network design using 10baseT ethernet. I'm a network engineer and work closely with sales. everytime in the past two years we've gone into a project, sales has always used upgrading to 100baseTX as a huge selling point. I can understand this, since the salemen and the customers can readily see 100 as being better than 10, but honestly IMO more than half the users have no reason to upgrade to 100base. plus considering that on many of these projects they don't use anything greater than 100base from the switches to the main server block, so therefore with all the desktops running 100base and browsing the internet, they are technically oversubscribed. what I'm wondering is, how should I say to the salemen that this isn't right, to keep them at 10base for the casual users and only the power users get 100base? I just don't have enough to really take away their best selling point. anyone work in a large company where its implemented like this or is everyone putting the average users desktop to 100base and oversubscribing the uplinks? scott ============================================= This email has been content filtered and subject to spam filtering. If you consider this email is unsolicited please forward the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and request that the sender's domain be blocked from sending any further emails. ============================================= ###################################################################### This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This email has been virus and content scanned by the Webvein Mail Gateway. ###################################################################### Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65092&t=65077 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
