Based on the best practices, what should be recommended as the most cost-effective switch model tor the technical rooms?

A global cruise line company needs to refresh its current fleet. They win refresh the insides’ of the ship to be cost-effective and increase their sustain ability. They Mill replace the complete WLAN/LAN hardware of the ship. In this refresh, the company will not refresh Us current security requirements. The CIO also wants to limit the number of unused ports in the switches. Future expansion will always mean a refresh of hardware. They start with the smallest ship with a maximum of 800 guests

Each ship has a LAN infrastructure consisting of two core switches, up to 10 redundant distribution switches, and up to 500 access switches (400 cabins. 100 technical rooms). The Core switches are located in the MDF of the ship and the distribution switches are located in the IDFs of the ship. Each cabin and technical room gets one single access switch.

The cabling structure of the ship will not be refreshed. Each IDF is connected to the MDF by SMF. of which two pairs are available for the interconnect between the core and distribution. The length of SM fiber between MDF and IDF is less than 300 meters (930 ft) and the type used is 0S1. Each cabin is connected by a single 0M2 pair to the IDF. the maximum length is 60 meters (200 ft). Each technical room is connected by a single 0M2 pail to the IDF. with lengths between 100 and 150 meters (320 and 500 ft).

For each cabin/technical room the customer is looking to replace their current fan-less 2530/2540 without changing the requirements, except they need to upgrade the uplink to distribution switch to 10GbEto handle the increased network traffic, and the technical rooms need redundant power.

The WLAN infrastructure will be 1:1 refreshed without new cabling or new AP locations. Their WLAN Infrastructure is based on the 200/300 series Indoor and outdoor APs running instant OS (less than 300 APs). the customer has no change in WLAN requirements.

The cruise line company will replace its current Internet connection before the LAN/WLAN refresh. The new Internet connection will provide a 99.8% uptime, which is needed to ensure the paid guest Wi-Fi is always operational. With this new internet connection, the CIO of the cruise line wants to base the design on the ESP architecture from Aruba because Internet connection is guaranteed.

Based on the best practices, what should be recommended as the most cost-effective switch model tor the technical rooms?
A . HPE Aruba Networking6300M 24p HPESmart Rate 1 G/2.5G/5G/1OG Class6 PoE and 2p 50G and 2 p 25G
B . HPE Aruba Networking 6200M 36G 12SR5 ClassG PoE 4SFP*
C . HPE Aruba Networking 6200M 24G Class- PoE 4SFP*
D . Aruba 6300M 12p Classd PoE and 36p Class6 PoE HPE Smart Rate 1G/2.5G/5G and 2p SOG and Zp 10G

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Answer: A

Explanation:

For technical rooms requiring redundant power and an upgrade to 10GbE uplinks to handle increased network traffic, the most cost-effective switch model is the HPE Aruba Networking 6300M 24p HPE Smart Rate 1G/2.5G/5G/10G Class6 PoE and 2p 50G and 2p 25G. This model offers the necessary port density and speed flexibility, with support for high-power PoE devices and uplink capabilities that meet the future-proofing needs for technical rooms on the cruise ships. The switch’s redundant power capabilities ensure high availability and resilience for critical technical room infrastructure, aligning with the customer’s requirements for sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and preparedness for future hardware refreshes without extensive unused port capacities.