What to use for Network Backbone in HOME.

moulderhere · Apr 30, 2013

I've bought a new house and basement is unfinished (thank god).

I'm running network cables to each room (6), to a lab of mine, server room, and main office.

I have a 24 Port GB Switch serving the 6 bedrooms but my lab will have 10 Pc's, the server room has 10 PC's and Main office has 4.

What hardware should I use to combine the Main Bedroom Switch to the server room, lab, and office.

What are your thoughts on a Switch with 10 GB Backbone?

I really don't feel like running tons of cables to a master switch. I'd really like to keep things localized and have 1 back bone cable.

What is good switches to get whereby it has a fast backbone??

USAFRet · Apr 30, 2013

I have a 24 Port GB Switch serving the 6 bedrooms but my lab will have 10 Pc's, the server room has 10 PC's and Main office has 4.

Not to be off-topic, but have you considered virtualizing some of those puppies? 20 machines is a lot of heat, noise, and power.
Would also make the wiring considerations a lot easier.

moulderhere · Apr 30, 2013

No as the Lab I often use as a training lab for people.

I don't care about power I'm more than half off the grid with solar power.

zdbc13 · Apr 30, 2013

Best to run a backbone cable to each room from the central switch and then branch off there with 16 port switches for the lab and server room. I think gigabit switches are enough for now as upgrading to 10 gig would be expensive and most applications don't need that much bandwidth. What kind of classes do you teach?

moulderhere · Apr 30, 2013

What is good switch with a higher end back bone. So I can run a switch to switch 1 cable with fast backbone.

I teach Basic to Advanced computer installation, troubleshooting. Also I get hired on for those in groups that want to get together and bring their problems to get resolved.
I have taught sessions with Father/son who want to learn how to build a computer.

zdbc13 · Apr 30, 2013

These are gigabit switches and use gigabit backbone. As I said 10gb backbone switches are well over $1000 and in my quick search doesn't find any 1gb switches with 10gb backbone.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100010066%20600031481%20600015691&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&SrchInDesc=gigabit&Page=1&PageSize=20

bill001g · Apr 30, 2013

You are going to pay a fortune for 10g and it will likely be a waste of money. You need to actually measure the rates you need. I work for a very large company and we have more than 5000 users at some sites with the data centers remote. We see peak rates to about 800m so I highly doubt your handful of machines NEED 10g.

Still if you want to spend the money the cheapest access switch you are going to get is something like a cisco 2960s which will run you about $1500 and another few hundred for the 10g sfp. So this is the switch you would use to plug your machines into. It only has 2 10g uplinks so it can connect to only 2 other 10g switches. If you need a switch with more than 2 10g ports its going to get even more expensive.

zdbc13 · Apr 30, 2013

Yes, bill is right. And the 10gb backbone switches with approx. 10 ports start around 4-5,000$. If you have the money, go for it!

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