Equipment for a network of 400 - 500 devices?

Question

Computer networks

there is a task for a couple of 3-4 buildings standing nearby to make a local network for employees, what kind of equipment "network core" can confidently maintain a network for
400 - 500 devices, end users will be connected via WI FI, access points with cables to the switch,
the question is which switch and The router can pull it all normally?
rack CISCO?

Answer 1

Cisco 4507E+: 5x48=240 ports, supervisor is duplicated, power supply is duplicated.
Holds routing, link aggregation, 10 Gigabit optics (and can aggregate it). Weighs over fifty kilos :-)

Answer 2

3750 will be cheaper. Huawei is even cheaper. And it is possible to separate switching and routing. And take managed L2 switches (almost any) on the network, and route it all with a separate L3 device. In general, 400-500 WiFi devices are not very many. Simple routing (without firewalling, inspections and other perversions) can withstand almost any modern equipment.

Answer 3

What's the budget? If expensive and with punts, then on tsiska. If it's cheap and to work, and even more so with Wi-Fi, then on Mikrotiks.
Per core routerboard.com/CCR1016-12S-1Splus (2 power supplies, can accept 10G)
Last mile and power enterprise.huawei.com/en/products/network/switch/c... with PoE Per
cabinet wifi washer like this download2.mikrotik.com/news/news_62.pdf
As a controller, mikrotik is more powerful for each building like the same CCR1036-12G-4S-EM with
CAPsMAN installed for a single seamless coverage area (since everyone is connected via WiFi)
400- 500 devices is a small network and it makes no sense to collect on ciscos for the price of an airplane, although if the budget allows, then why not.

Answer 4

good evening, I’ll clarify right away I wrote rack-mount CISCO, just for example, because I don’t know what in theory can stably pull such a load, I myself always set up networks not large up to 50 maximum 100 devices ... therefore there is little experience to predict the behavior of equipment in real conditions different from the marketing beautiful characteristics of such ... the organization is a budgetary municipal hospital and funding is not from the budget, but from the pockets of willing users, and as funds become available, implementation is underway ...
thanks for the advice

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Ilya T. Ilya T.

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Sergey Petrikov Sergey Petrikov

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Armenian Radio Armenian Radio

, I would only dream of delivering this miracle, but this is a distant fantasy for us in terms of funds, but thanks for the advice !!
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Ilya T. Ilya T.

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And take managed L2 switches (almost any) to the network, and route it all with a separate L3 device

examples can be something in a modest area up to 300 ye per piece.
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Sergey Petrikov Sergey Petrikov

Yes, I myself sympathize with Mikrotik, but it’s all too confusing for now, setting up just a couple of devices is interesting but dreary, you have to constantly sit on it, otherwise it’s dumb to make a network on what you swim heavily in ... but Thanks for the solution