Question regarding to network design

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MarcP
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Question regarding to network design

Hi all,

 

just have a question regarding to my network design for a new site...

 

Will have a stack of two coreswitches (aggregationswitch), a few access switches and a several accesspoints.

 

In the past, I made a network and put all devices into the same network. 

Now I´m thinking of making two networks... One for the corestack, the other for all switches and accesspoints.

 

How do you guys do it or is there a best practice?

Thinking of updating firmwares... in the network where I have all in one, I can only update everything... It may make sense to only (or step by step) update accessswitches (first).

 

Thanks for your tips.

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MarcP
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Ah nice, didn´t notice staged updates till now. Thanks!

MarcP
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Hi @GreenMan ,

got a further question on this...

Nearly the same question as above, but this time there is already a network running and now another building is coming in with its own corestack, switches and accesspoints.

Existing network/building and new building are connected to each other. The new Corestack will get its uplink through the existing corestack.

 

Is there a best practise for this?

All in one Network or a new network for the new building?

 

It may be more clearer if I have to networks, but as it is at the exact same address and even connected between each other I´m not sure what the best way is.

 

Thanks, regards

Marc

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I'd be tempted to do these as one network still.  How many switches are we talking about, it total?

MarcP
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33 Switches (couple of stacks) , 150 Accesspoints.

But regarding to your posts, decided to put all in one network 🙂

BlakeRichardson
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Yes one network, if you split them into multiple networks the dashboard will not be able to draw the topology and it could make viewing network clients a pain. 

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MarcP
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Hi @BlakeRichardson ,

got a further question on this...

Nearly the same question as above, but this time there is already a network running and now another building is coming in with its own corestack, switches and accesspoints.

Existing network/building and new building are connected to each other. The new Corestack will get its uplink through the existing corestack.

 

Is there a best practise for this?

All in one Network or a new network for the new building?

 

It may be more clearer if I have to networks, but as it is at the exact same address and even connected between each other I´m not sure what the best way is.

 

Thanks, regards

Marc

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