On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Jeff Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:27 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: >> That must be my mistake then, because I thought the exercise was >> building it in a way that it stays built for the maximum practical >> number of years. When it has to be touched again (or tweaked if it > > So when you upgrade a device, you always buy the suitable device which > has the highest capabilities? You put in a top-of-rack switch with > 10GbE for servers with no 10GbE ports and no plans of needing 10GbE > connectivity to the next round of servers? You buy a modular router > for branch offices that have only a few workstations and no > predictable need for upgraded connectivity?
there's probably a different need in TOR and BO/SOHO locations than core devices, eh?
