willay
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Great idea but surely the most likely reason for a core failing is because the cable itself got dug up or something?
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Dom
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What are you trying to achieve exactly?
As Willay says, a core will give you a number of links but it'll be a single point of failure.
Tbh, if all you're wanting is a simple fallback link for redundancy then you could employ a cheap wireless 100Mb link (Ubiquiti etc) on top of the fibre.
If you want an actual mesh topology with redundancy then you're going to have to stick in another link, that takes a different route to the link between the junior school and reception school, between the 'main servers' and the reception school and then add in the cross links between nodes - it's a lot of hassle for little gain tbf.
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willay
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for the right application it would be fine but this is a school.
Get the ubiquti stuff, put it in the cupboard as a backup in the event the copper line goes down.
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VrsTurbo
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Just installed some Ubiquiti kit. The 3 AP WiFi bundle, fantastic bits of kit and easy to install. Have 3 SSID's with 3 different VLANs over the business.
The Visitor/Guest portal is a nice touch too
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pow
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Running a site wide deployment of Unifi, it's bloody awesome.
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