Should I Aloof Replace All My Hubs with Switches?
Written on 15:20 by Ahmet Emir
You’re a arrangement ambassador at a ample aggregation in San Jose. The bang-up comes to you and
says that he got your application to buy a about-face and is not abiding about acknowledging the expense;
do you absolutely charge it?
Well, if you can, sure—why not? Switches absolutely add a lot of functionality to a arrangement that
hubs aloof don’t have. But best of us don’t accept an absolute budget. Hubs still can actualize a
nice network—that is, of course, if you architecture and apparatus the arrangement correctly.
Let’s say that you accept 40 users acquainted into four hubs, 10 users each. At this point, the hubs
are all affiliated calm so that you accept one ample blow area and one ample broadcast
domain. If you can allow to buy aloof one about-face and bung anniversary hub into a about-face port, as
well as bung the servers into the switch, again you now accept four blow domains and one
broadcast domain. Not great, but for the amount of one switch, your arrangement is a abundant better
thing. So, go ahead! Put that application in to buy all new switches. What do you accept to lose?
