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connecting switches together

kyleid1kyleid1 Registered Users Posts: 1 ■□□□□□□□□□
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Why would you connect two switches together? what are the benefits?
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    koz24koz24 Member Posts: 766 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Is this a homework question?
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    MooseboostMooseboost Member Posts: 778 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Redundancy
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    MitechniqMitechniq Member Posts: 286 ■■■■□□□□□□
    24 + 24 = 48 with a trunk port in between or with Cisco Stackwise technology it's like one big switch.
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    DoubleNNsDoubleNNs Member Posts: 2,015 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Need more ports.
    Physical segmentation. (SwitchA has hosts connected that serve PurposeA. SwitchB has hosts connected that serve PurposeB.)
    Costs. Some switches are expensive. You can connect some hosts/devices to less expensive/feature intensive switches and others to the expensive switches.
    Organization. (Prettier. Easier to wrap brain around.)
    Redundancy.
    So that physical failure doesn't take down a whole segment/network.
    Distance limitations. (Purpose of Fabric Extender switches - FEXes)

    Lots of reasons. I'm sure the actual net admins on the site can think of more/better reasons.
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    mikeybinecmikeybinec Member Posts: 484 ■■■□□□□□□□
    vlans--extend groups to another area
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    Techie19Techie19 Member Posts: 88 ■□□□□□□□□□
    At work, of the main reasons we have more than one switch connected together (stacked) is for redundancy. If one fails the other is ready to take over. For example, we would have two 24 ports Cisco 3650 access layer switches stacked. One will be partially or fully populated. If it were to become defective, the second switch will be available right there and then to take over. Just a matter of connecting patch cables to this other switch. Same as to why there are two power supplies on them. One guys out, the other is available to keep it up, minimizing outage time. Key thing I've noticed at work, redundancy is huge. Same goes for the UPS's. Hope this helped.
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    NetworkNewbNetworkNewb Member Posts: 3,298 ■■■■■■■■■□
    koz24 wrote: »
    Is this a homework question?

    definitely icon_wink.gif
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    Chev ChelliosChev Chellios Member Posts: 343 ■■■□□□□□□□
    NetworkNewb wrote: »
    definitely icon_wink.gif

    Exactly. Why bother registering and posting here though when a simple Google search would suffice?
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