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hohojojo
Jan 03, 2018Aspirant
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 ...
- Jan 09, 2018
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.
If ever your concern has been addressed or resolved, I encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accepted Solution” so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. The NETGEAR Community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
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hohojojo
Jan 09, 2018Aspirant
thank you for correcting me and pointing me to the given discussion. The NAS (Synology 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. But for an electrical galvanic separation between the two switches I need a fiber connection. Is the Netgear S3300-28X (GS728TX) - ProSAFE S3300 Smart Switch Series possible? I think of an uplink with 2 fibers: - 1 fiber connected in upload ports 27F from switch 1 (Netgear S3300-28X (GS728TX)) to switch 2 (Netgear S3300-28X (GS728TX)) port 27F and - one fiber port 28F on switch 1 connected to Switch 2 on port 28F Will it be possible to create a LAG between the two switches? ( the term link aggregation applies to various methods of combining (aggregating) multiple network connections in parallel in order to increase throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain, and to provide redundancy in case one of the links should fail. A Link Aggregation Group (LAG) combines a number of physical ports together to make a single high-bandwidth data path, so as to implement the traffic load sharing among the member ports in the group and to enhance the connection reliability. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregate_group)
JohnC_V
Jan 09, 2018NETGEAR Moderator
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.
If ever your concern has been addressed or resolved, I encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accepted Solution” so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. The NETGEAR Community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
Regards,
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