Vlanning reccomendation...

[.Froot.]

The means of connecting the 2960 switch to a single/multimode fiber is by using a tranceiver, as Cisco calls it. There you have two options: 100-FX, which costs R1700 or a 1000-LX, which costs R7000. You would require three, which would thus be R5100 and R21000 respectively, excluding the switch.

However, I cannot see whether the 1000-LX is compatible with the 2960. There are no generic 1000-LX tranceivers for the 2960, only the 2970.

 

[nihilist]

We have 3x Netgear fibre converters that give us cat3 gigabit ethernet from the fibre links, sorry, I don't have the stuff infront of me, and fibre is a bit new to me for now.

I am sort of leaning towards building a linux box with something like RouterOS to DIY this task, to save money.

 

[ToxicBunny]

HP switches also do VLANing... can't remember which model specifically, but we've just switched all the Cisco stuff out for HP at my offices.

 

[nihilist]

Perhaps you're thinking of the procurve range? I'll check that out too.

Since the equipment is expensive, and it's basically an upgrade/new infrastructure I want to take my time (since I'm not under pressure haha) and do it nice from the start.