Large Fibre Switch

[mjs_mjs]

We're struggling with 10 fibers as it is and need to add more. Anyone got any surjestions on a switch with multtiple GBIC and miniGBIC interface slots? looking for 10+ GBIC and as many miniGBIC as poss (about another 10)

[john]

You could try:
Layer 3 Rack Mountable Managed Gigabit Switch GSM7312
or
ProSafe™ Layer 3 Managed, Stackable, Gigabit Switch - GSM7328FS

The last one is a beast! I aspire to getting one of them in my rack ready for when I have my fibres in all the places the need to be then we will have one decent network backbone

[Oops_my_bad]

ProSafe™ Layer 3 Managed, Stackable, Gigabit Switch - GSM7328FS

The last one is a beast! I aspire to getting one of them in my rack ready for when I have my fibres in all the places the need to be then we will have one decent network backbone

I'll concurr with that - we have 2 buildings each with one of these as their core. Solid as a rock! They only have SFP fibre ports though (easily solved with £50 tranceivers from hardware.com)

[kylewilliamson]

Can recommend one of these:

HP ProCurve Switch 5400zl Series

[Tallwood_6]

Yep another vote for the procurve, got a 5400 and the older 4200 series both are excellent & the 5400 will go 10gbit as well.