‘Don't Buy at Us’ is a US-based retail company that is expanding into Europe. They are expanding into EMEA with a regional headquarters called HQ2 inside The Netherlands.
Their US-based headquarters HQ1 was refreshed last year based on the HPE Aruba Networking ESP architecture. You have created the design for HQ2 based on the same design as HQ1, a two-tier architecture. The high level is shown below.
Switch BOM for this project based on Two Tier:
Collapsed Core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
Access Stack: 10 x Stack of 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack)
During the presentation of your design to the CTO of ‘Don't Buy at Us’ you were informed about the updated fiber infrastructure that ‘Don't Buy at Us' has installed in HQ2.
The core stack is installed in the MDF and per IDF there is one access stack installed. Based on best practice, what is the most cost-effective update to the switch BOM?
Thomas66
1 week, 5 days ago