On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:40:27PM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:41:38PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > My concern was that for a hotel with 1000s of rooms that a switch port for > > each room would be a very high cost, but what you described looks like an > > even higher investment. Which makes my argument pretty much moot. > > The cost of a 96 port Cisco 6509 switch (which could be upgraded to nearly > another 400 ports) is about $80,000 (Cisco discounts vary wildly, this is > ballpark). > > As a CORE router, this is pretty inexpensive. Peppering 2948 (48 port) > units at a cost of $8000 or so with backhauls to the 6509 gets the cost > down even more. 2924 (24 ports) are $1200 or so.
Since I haven't worked in that arena, I guess I'm still in the penny pincher mind-set. Especially since it took a lot of pushing to finally get a 100Mbps Ethernet switch that cost ~$3000. I'm sure I'll grow out of it, but thanks for the long explanation. Mike
