Cisco Hardware experts...

[NathanBWF]

So we have 2 Catalyst 1905 models that are used to connect two of our buildings together via fiber. I just noticed that the 12 ethernet ports on there are 10 BASE T only. I'd like to replace them with a model that has 100 BASE T ports available. I believe the 2950 series would be the logical move to make, but just wanted opinions from others...

 

[phatrabt]

Are you looking for scalability and\or expansion at all? If not the 2950's are a possiblity. You could look at pickin up some 2924's on the cheap if all you need are the switches (but you need the fiber interfaces though, right?) Looks like the 2950SX would be your best bet then...

phatrabt

 

[NathanBWF]

We already have the fiber interfaces in place and scalability isn't that big of an issue. My only concern right now is being bottlenecked by the 10 BASE T ports...

 

[nweaver]

Are you running extremly high bandwidth applications? 10mb is not as slow as some make it out to be, especially for most office stuff. If you are upgrading and looking then I would go 100, but if you just think you need 100 because 10 is slow, then I would wait, see if you can slug it out till managed gig becomes cheaper.

 

[Pheran]

Sounds like you'd probably want a 2950SX-24 or a 2950G-12 or 2950G-24, depending on how many ports you need and how much flexibility you want on the gigabit ports. The 2950Gs have modular GBICs; the 2950SX is 1000BaseSX only. I'm assuming that you're running 100BaseFX over the existing fiber. Be aware that the range on 1000BaseSX over multimode is only 550m, as opposed to 2 km for 100BaseFX. So if your buildings are far apart you may need to go to 1000BaseLX.