[K12OSN] networking wisdom needed

[Peter Hartmann]

Oh yeah BTW. I am planning on getting 16, 24 port gig uplink switches
for the classrooms and lab. Although this year we're only going to
have 100 terminals and 1 dual opteron server w/ 6gb ram.  I intend to
have 3 or more gig nics linked with 802.3ad on the server  although
maybe I shouldn't count on that working.   Les, how do figure 200
terminals? By Hucks' formula that would need 20gb capacity.   That's
totally saturated of course.  Unless I'm misunderstanding something. 
I just want to make sure that we have a switch that we can grow with.

Thanks,
Peter

On 8/24/05, Brandon Kovach <bkovach at logrog.net> wrote:
> That's about 100 times more than they will need.  Your bottleneck will be
> in the server.  Past that, a 100 mb switch works great.  If you are going
> to hook up several switches, I recommend a gig backbone, but ....
> 
> IMHO
> 
> BK
> > Hey Folks,
> > I'm looking into an older model Cisco switch for our backbone.  It's
> > the Catalyst 2948G-GE-TX.  The specs say, "the 48 10/100/1000BASE-T
> > ports [can] share 12Gbps of capacity (or 6Gbps full-duplex) into the
> > switching fabric. " How many terminals could that support max?
> > Granted I don't think the whole school needs to play Tux Type
> > simultaneously.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Peter
> >
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