Power Injector

[rebelwireless]

I absolutely prefer trunking vlans. Less wires, most everything is figureable in software instead of physically moving cables. Even with an AF backhaul you have enough throuout on a gigabit port, and you can lag 2 ports if you need a bit more.

[rebelwireless]

The only catch with trunking vlans is that if vlan 1 data gets routed/bridged to vlan2 over the trunk, the trunk essentially acts as if it's half duplex. having a second cable and doing a LAG group is a patch to get you back up to 1G the value of trunking is diluted because you have so many runs anyway.

Then you have to really start looking at SFP+ ports for trunking. Really, if you have a bunch of gigabit ports, it's not a long term plan to trunk them down a single gigabit link anyway, you know that trunk line is a bottleneck and now that we are getting access to radios that will do hundreds of Mbps this is going to get real.

This is the kind of stuff that makes you start thinking about SPB with VLANs and similar tech.