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I have a small network with about 200 network devices,20 users and 10 printers. The network is spreed out over a large building. I have central networking rack with about 150 ports and three remote closets connect by fiber with switches to attach to device in the area. The switches where setup back in 2000 when the number of networked devices was half of what it is now. The switches are getting old and need replaced. The switches are also not stacked properly. They are stack by interconnecting the switches through the regular ports. This may have been fine back in the day but with the network growth we seen it needs to be better. I am not really interested in gigabit ethernet, 10/100M is fine. I am looking at the Powerconnect 3500 or 5500 series switches. I am also looking to stack them correctly and setting up VLANs for performance and security. Does any one have any suggestions or recommendations? Can you span switches with VLANs?

snowsam · Answer

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