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Recommend a 16-port switch w/ POE

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Ghiddy

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Setting up VOIP in our office. Only 8 voip phones. Vendor is setting this up actually but wanted to use [FONT=&quot]cisco 2900 at first. I asked for estimates on using POE (which [/FONT][FONT=&quot]cisco 2900 doesn't support).

So basically I'd like a recommendation for a reliable switch that supports 802.3af. Doesn't need to be managed (VOIP is using a physically separate LAN, so this switch will only handle a few VOIP calls).

The phones are PolyCom 501's.
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procurve has some affordable poe switches. you can do physical vlan to make the switch more affordable. or just use a cheap switch and power bricks 😉
 
So it looks like the POE switch is $500, and $200 for the non-POE one. The POE one is 24 port, with I think either 8 or 12 POE ports.

Is it worth it?


I could research a switch that's better sized which would hopefully be cheaper -- meaning maybe a 16 port switch with at least 8 POE ports. The thing is, I don't want to spend time researching this, that's why we are paying the vendor after all. They are fine with it if we do our own switch but they said they prefer if we use one they pick, because they use stuff they've worked with before and they know works. I totally agree with that. But it seems crazy to pay $300 just to use POE for 8 phones.
 
I used a DLink DES-1228P in a recent install and it worked very well. It's "web-managed" but I was successfully able to implement Voice VLANs and it has a fairly high PoE budget for as cheap as it is.
 
Really...Check out the Cisco Catalyst 3750 Wireless LAN controller with PoE...24-port PoE switch with built-in WLAN controller for 25 APs = $20k list.
 
Ghiddy said:
Setting up VOIP in our office. Only 8 voip phones. Vendor is setting this up actually but wanted to use [FONT=&quot]cisco 2900 at first. I asked for estimates on using POE (which [/FONT][FONT=&quot]cisco 2900 doesn't support).

So basically I'd like a recommendation for a reliable switch that supports 802.3af. Doesn't need to be managed (VOIP is using a physically separate LAN, so this switch will only handle a few VOIP calls).

The phones are PolyCom 501's.
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The 2900 series does contain models with POE support, but judging from your other posts, this is out of your company's price range.
 
V1905 24 port poe
V1910 (static route).

You want web managed to reboot a phone that is hung. also check your power needs there are different standards for different power hungry uses. Also do you plan to do any security cameras? You would use the same switch for that too , physical vlan separation.
 
I have been using the Cisco SMB SF300 switches. These come in 8 and 24 POE ports, all 7.5 watts average per port.

The 8 port has 8 POE ports and 2 gigabit uplink ports. Its also fanless.

These switches are web managed, but they also have a basic CLI for SSH, Telnet, or serial connections.

For VOIP they have many QOS options, and many VLAN options.

The switches can be managed from any designated VLAN.

The support for the switches includes advanced next day replacement, i.e Cisco will send the replacement switch before the old one is sent back.

The configuration for the switch can be saved in a text file, so when the switch is swapped you can restore the configuration used before.

The switches will also do static L3 routing though you do have to put them into L3 mode to do this.

Jitter and packet loss wise they are better than the Procurve's, Dlinks, and Netgears.

They are also generally cheaper than the Procurve, or Netgear.

See the Tolly report comparing these switches below:
http://www9.cisco.com/en/US/prod/co...ps10898/Cisco300SeriesLANSwitchComparison.pdf

Rob
 
Ghiddy said:
But it seems crazy to pay $300 just to use POE for 8 phones.
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Consider that most "good" injectors are in the $40+ range, it doesn't seem expensive at all.

Problem with cheaper injectors is they are often under powered and fail, possible damaging the phone and wasting your (IT's life) trying to figure out why something is broken.
 
see the thread on cisco smb. run! SMB pro - that is different. SMB = junk. procurve v1905/v1910 is like cisco smb pro imo. decent. with a better warranty. i am trained in the jedi of cisco sales and procurve sales. cisco (tac) > procurve > cisco
(smb pro) >poop > cisco (smb)>valet .
 
I've done the training for the Cisco SMB products. That was about 10 months back. At that time the ESW520 range of switches was part of the SMB pro products.

The SF300 range came out after the training. Guess what the SF300 will replace the ESW520 switches, this is according to our Cisco rep.

The warranty on the SF300 range is as good as the ESW520. See the quote from Cisco "Peace of mind: All Cisco 300 Series Switches are protected for the life of the product by the Cisco Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty, which includes next-business-day advance replacement."

The facilities on the SF300 are as good and often better than the ESW520.

Rob
 
I don't know what most of you are talking about (I don't know much about voip or switches -- just enough to get myself into trouble). I noticed that the vendor is providing polycom 501's though, which require a special cable. This would cost an extra $20 per phone. I just said forget the POE and we're going with a $200 Cisco 2900 series switch w/o POE.
 
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