Suitable switch

[DavidLK]

Hello,

I'm working in a company with a 50+ network points in one net. For this, we have:

- 2 x Hp Procurve 1800-24g switch

- 1 x Hp Procurve 1700-24g switch

- 1 x Hp Procurve 2180-24g switch

My idea is to change this "big" net and create some subnets in differents vlans, in order to reduce the broadcast domains and a better control with ACL's. Of course, I'll need inter vlan routing

The question I've in mind is: what hp switch model is more suitable for me? I've seen HP 1910 series that seems to be sufficient but I don't want to risk in buying it and then discover that is not enought.

My plan is get a switch with:

- Vlan support

- Inter vlan routing - so a layer 3 switch

- ACL support

- Port trunking - or link aggregation - or etherchannels.... The tecnology to group various physical ports of the switch into one logical port with more bandwidth.

And then, use this switch as a "parent" switch connected to my existent hp procurves via port trunks (to avoid bottleneck). The access switches will be configured with the vlans so the traffic between switches should be vlan-tagged and the new switch will become a "router" for the vlans and establish some ACL controls.

What switch will be more suitable to accomplish this??

Thank you very much

[TamNP]

Hello,

You can take a look at
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/vn/en/networking/products/switches/index.aspx#tab=TAB2