We have a site that will have upto 80 or so pc's, all cat5e cabling back to 1 rack.
We usually use 2950 switches, upto 48 ports, never used anything larger
- it seems inefficient to link two of these via a 1GB port.
Is there a way to link two or more of these and effectively turn them into 1 switch get full bandwidth) or would we be better off speccing a much larger switch, ive never seen a 96 port in operation but the site is likely to need this many, maybe a few more so trying to work out how best to achieve this.
Although most systems will be new and also have gigabit network cards there is no need for gigabit to the desktop, its mostly standard admin work with fairly small volume small files.