Current economic conditions demand a “back to basics” approach and accelerated payback on any IT investment
Convergence adoption requires
Greater Resiliency and Consistent Capabilities from core to edge; mission-critical voice
Minimize Cost of Adds, Moves and Changes, i.e. Branch office/SMB IT management dealing with resource constraints, uncertain growth patterns requiring
Greater Operational Ease and Versatility for redeployment
Organizational focus on increased productivity, reduced total cost of ownership (squeezing most from existing investments)
Higher performance
Ensuring investments made today can adapt to changing business needs: Gig E future proofing
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This means simple to install and simple to maintain. 3750 offers advantages in 4 key areas:
Getting started – setup and install
Making changes – adding and deleting switches
Monitoring – keeping track of activity
Wizards provide complex configurations with just a few user entries/inputs
Wizards included for configuring the switch to optimally handle different
types of traffic:
Voice, Video, and Mission critical applications
A security wizard restricts access to sensitive data
Example:
By identifying the switch port and IP address of a video server, the wizard
will automatically configure the switch to optimize the quality of video
Example:
By specifying the network topology type and a few other parameters, the
voice wizard will automatically configure the cluster for voice over IP
(VoIP).
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Explain the design in brief.
Wiring closets are designed using 3500 for wire speed 10/100 performance and cost.
The uplinks are connected to campus backbone switch 6500.
3500 has two GBIC ports which can be used for stacking and gigabit uplinks. The two ports provide cost-effective uplink redundancy
Packets come into the wiring closet from clients. The 3500s put them in high or low priority queues depending on COS value (802.1p priority field).
With priority queue scheduling in 3500, the high priority queue (used for VoIP, mission critical apps, etc.) is always serviced first and only when empty will the low priority queue be serviced.
At the backbone, the 6500 performs COS to TOS mapping. From the campus backbone and over the WAN, the Layer 3 TOS can be used to achieve E2E QoS.
Using ACLs additional policies can be created at the campus backbone or the WAN edge routers.
IP Phones can be directly attached to 3500.
Optionally, a PC can be daisy chained to the IP phone.
High performance stacking for growth – telephony, gigabit speeds, changing user population, migration to IPv6 networks
Auto-configuration – takes the guesswork out of configuration, wizards for fast install
Scalability – grows to accommodate more users, more VLANs, L3, longer life span
Most comprehensive set of security features – gives you the most number of options for securing the LAN
Pay as you grow - Cost effective solution for customers uncertain about their growth
Increased resiliency for additions, deletions, substitutions – no downtime for changes
Industry-leading QoS mechanisms for high performance data and converged applications