Recommendations for BB Design
Best architecture
- Collapsed backbone or VLAN
Ideal design
- A mixture of layer-2 and layer-3 Ethernet switches
- Access Layer
- 10/100Base-T Later 2 switches with cat5e or cat6
- Distribution Layer
- 100base-T or 1000BaseT/F Layer 3 switches
- Core Layer
- Layer 3 switches running 10GbE or 40GBe