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advise for buying switches and creation SFP trunk
Dear community,
As I am new to managed Switches I would like to have some advise before buying 2 switches.
I need to connect 2 switches, one in a small office and one in home, approx. 50 meters apart from each other. A 200 Mbit fiber internet connection is ready to connect in the home location and connects both the office uses and the home users.
I think of using 2 ProSAFE Smart Switches GS724T which have 2 fiber SFP GBIC connections as a stack and connect them via an SFP trunk to get a 2Gbit connection between switches.
Planned are 2 Synology DS1817+ file- and backupservers, one in office and one in home. This DS1817+ has 4 Gbit ethernet connections and supports link aggregation (LACP). I think of connecting them via an 4 port SFP trunk to the switch for optimal performance.
Future connections for security camera's are prepared.
Questions
1) Is creation of the trunks and stack possible with these switches?
2) Is this a cost effective solution given the provided information or is there a much better option?
3) Is this the right type of cable for this project?
https://www.patchkast.nl/om3-glasvezel-kabel-lc-lc-50m.html
type: Duplex, Multimode 50/125,
category: OM3
connector: LC
I am happy to provide more information if needed.
Thanks, hohojojo
Yes, you may use the S3300-28X (GS728TX) for trunking and LACP. It is also possible to create LAG between two switches as long as the switches that you are going to use supports LAG. If you wanted a device that supports stacking feature then the GS728TXS will do.
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Hi hohojojo,
Welcome to our community!
Unfortunately, GS724T does not support stacking features. It will be possible if you may check this stackable switches that we have.
Regards,
- Thanks for your reply JohnCarloV! To bad :-( Glad I asked before.... It seems to me that the datasheet isn't very clear about that. This one: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/datasheet/en/GS716Tv3-GS724Tv4-GS748Tv5.pdf See the part of page 3 attached as png file. I looked at your suggestion and found model GS728TS Stackable Smart Managed Switch Series. I can't find this model at my providers site. I also need a special stacking cable AGC761 for a 2,5 Gbit stack, I liked the idea of redundancy (in my original question) for the connection and 50 meters fibre between the 2 switch locations. The people over here suggested another type, the S3300-28X (GS728TX) - ProSAFE S3300 Smart Switch Series. There is already an 10 GBit uplink. Can this switch be used to create a 20 GB SFP trunk if they think they would need it? And of course I like it for redundancy.
I don't see any stacking feature showing on the datasheet you have given. It has SFP ports but those are not applicable for stacking, it will only work for trunk and LAGs. Stacking is different from creating a redundancy or LAGs. You may refer on this article for setting a LAG in stacking ports.
Regards,
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