Re: Hi-Rise Building Fiber Suggestions

[Ryan Hamel <ryan () rkhtech org>]

I do not recommend doing that, it's 30 members in a single stack. Mine was only two, directly connected to each other.

Treat your control plane like your L2, don't extend it farther than necessary.
Ryan
On Feb 25 2020, at 9:00 pm, Tim Požár <pozar () lns com> wrote:
> Also, Juniper switches will stack over fiber. I have deployed Virtual
> Chassis over multiple IDFs. The VC ports can be (and highly suggested)
> to be in a ring.
>
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/virtual-chassis-ex4200-overview.html
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration/virtual-chassis-ex4300-configuring.html
> On 2/25/20 6:32 PM, Norman Jester wrote:
> > I’m in the process of choosing hardware
> > for a 30 story building. If anyone has experience with this I’d appreciate any tips.
> >
> > There are two fiber pairs running up the building riser. I need to put a POE switch on each floor using this fiber.
> > The idea is to cut the fiber at each floor and insert a switch and daisy chain the switches together using one 
> > pair, and using the other pair as the failover side of the ring going back to the source so if one device fails it 
> > doesn’t take the whole string down.
> > The problem here is how many switches can be strung together and I would not try more than 3 to 5. This is not 
> > something I typically do (stacking switches). I have fears of STP and/or RSTP issue stacking past Ethernet switch 
> > to switch limits (if they still exist??)
> > Is there a device with a similar protocol as the old 3com (now HP IDF) stacking capability via fiber?
> > I’d like to use something inexpensive as its to power ubiquiti wifi on each floor. Ideally if you know something I 
> > don’t about ubiquiti switches that can do this I’d appreciate knowing.
> > Norman