Day 1 of our network upgrade - Cisco 4506's

We unpacked and placed all the switches in their locations throughout the company. Once we connected the access layer switches to the extra pair of fiber we had to hope we would get a light at the end of the tunnel LOL. No really we had to hope for a light down in the datacenter at the end of the fiber run. When we were done installing the switches we got our lights. Everything went smooth. The new network is running in parallel.

Here is our new core.

2 Cisco 4506's. We will have 2 runs to each access layer switch from the core. This is in preparation for a future VoIP install later on. Your foundation MUST be up to par before you can even think about VoIP.

We are finally moving to a more enterprise level network. Cisco would call it a three-layered hierarchical model or hierarchical internetworking model. It consist of;

-Core layer
-Distribution layer
-Access layer

Our setup will be core/distribution layer (all in the core) and access layer out on the floors.