You're correct that many users don't need 100Mbit to fully function. However, I think you need to look at things from a different perspective:
The current cost of 100Mbit is in many cases the same as 10Mbit, and in some cases is even cheaper due to production demand. The cost of 1Gbit is rapidly dropping. We don't know what technologies the future will bring, and we don't know that there won't be a paradigm shift with respect to enterprise applications and/or WAN / Internet access speeds in the near future. Since the future is unknown, and the cost of 100Mbit is not what it used to be, I see no reason to stick with, or sell, 10Mbit. If you don't like the above reason, look at it another way: 10 is faster than 100, customers like faster, customers buy what they like, you have a job to implement what customer buys. At 06:35 PM 3/11/2003 +0000, you wrote: >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 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65099&t=65077 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
