Cisco Catalyst 3750 & Linksys SGE2000P

Hello everyone,
I m in the process of addin new switches with Gigabit port in my server room, actually I have a single switch 48 port (a Cisco 3550) that is connected to a Core Switch via fibre channel but I need to migrate some of my server in a gigabit mode. My management did not allow me to buy a new Cisco switch, because the model with 24 port Gigabit is a bit expensive. so I need to find another solution.
My first thought was to buy a Linksys SGE2000P, and connect it to our Core switch via a fiber channel, to do that I must be sure that a SGE2000P is compatible with my Core switch (3750 12 port SFP) so here is my question does anyone around here has already tried that ? :-)
Thanks in advance
regards,
Arnaud Leresche

I think there should be no compatibility issue BUT I have not personally tried it.

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thanks a lot for your answer - and sorry for my late reply!
I like to show you my solution - I hope that it is a solution. ;-)
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