Im looking for a switch (neednt be managed but i assume it needs to be) that will combine megabit ports into gigabit ports.

Basically i have a large site and we are running out of bandwidth using megabit switches. The ip cams are split over multiple servers on differnt ip's to minimise this impact but of course a switch can only connect cam to server at any one time. Im hoping to use a switch that would take say 10 megabit ports and combine them into a single gigabit. That way my camera count can increase as it needs to without hitting a bandwidth brick wall.

Any Suggestions?

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=495

you can 'plonk' a modern swich straight on to the main switch some use the last post 'out' which you simply plug into a spare port upstream, speeds are auto detected so if your cams are 10's they work fine but won't work any quicker, the new switch will translate so interface to allow them to work.

Arfur

PS

would ask is it a CAT5e or CAT6 cabled network?

Edited August 8, 201015 yr by arfur mo

cat5e, but i think your missing my point.

If you have 50 ip cams then a std switch is going to struggle. I need something a lot more powerful.

cisco?

£phew

probably, but neednt be. It going to be a steep switch but it will help.

Read this a couple of time & have no real idea want you are on about......

I reading this as this ?

24 10/100 ports with a pair of 10/100/1000(25+26) to join the swicthes up ?

I assume you mean something way more complex ?

nope

thats the idea but i need a swicth that will combine the traffic from a few 10/100 ports to get the best efficiency out of the gigabit port.

If you think that a switch just connects port to port for a split second then im never going to achieve any decent throughput until those packets are joined together.

But rather than connecting the gigabit uplink ports to a swicth they will be going into the hvr's

I'll look into it......

In the mean time we have a memeber who posts smashing piccies of racks with cisco switches, I reckon PM him ?

Yeah im hoping for input from him