Around 2000 the lab I worked in Middletown started rethinking our layout. We had some 40+ rows of racks of various test beds (Managed Network Services). Seems we didn't have the budget to properly replace the aging cable (it's was only about 10 years old ???). Anyway we started adding 37xx switches to each row and each row would have a few 37xx. Eventually we built a nice cross switched network layout for our test equipment (Ixia, Smartbits and a bunch of BBB Linux servers). It wasn't hard to have everything we needed in each test bed. I was surplused when VM just started. That would have been fun and the new SDN/SVN/NVF take that to an entirely new level. I really miss playing in the labs. PS: BBB = Boring Beige Box -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies