Best Design

[xdxml12]

Hello,

Having trouble deciding what is best for the following scenario..

If i have about 20 buildings in a campus, with 1 core in the main DC and another core 1 mile away in a DR buidling. Both have to be used. Would it be best to have a distribution in each building and connect back to the cores as a hub and spoke...OR should i connect all buildings together in a ring type deployment? These buildings are sometimes very far about 2 miles from the core DC.

Hub and spoke vs ring type deployment?

Any advise or right way of thinking/best practice would be useful.

Thanks

 

[imbadatthis]

is it just L2 you are worried about?
what services are you running ?
what kind of application redundancy is required?
how much is your uptime.

what kind of equipment do you have?
what kind of budget do you have ?


there are fair amount of things to consider before saying this is the 'best design'..

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always up, not down and always twirling twirling towards infinity.