Price Concious - 10/100 PoE Switch w/ Gbit Uplink

Sin_Chase · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:51

As per the subject really, Netgear FS728TP for £370 ish but not a fan of Netgear stuff for enterprise level use.

Any ideas? HP Procurve stuff all starts upwards of 1k.

Nikumba · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:15

We use Cisco Catalyst Express 500, 24 port 10/100 PoE ports with 2 copper gig uplinks and can take 2 fibre modules.

We get them for about £800 ish, we have loads of them and run our IP phone system and desktops on them.

Kimbie

iaind · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:26

Do you absolutely need POE, or is it just for a few WAPs etc? POE injectors, or even a POE patch panel may work out more cost effective

Sin_Chase · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:51

IP Cameras, POE is a must.

ruffneck · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:57

you can get HP Procurve 2626 PWR's for £500 easy. We use them in some of our cabinets for our Avaya VOIP system.

Curiosityx · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:55

Are the Camera's Class 2 or 3 PoE rated as it will determine the capabilities of the switch. Personally if your on a budget i would suggest either of the two below.

SRW224G4P

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9987/index.html

ESW-520-24P-K9

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps10143/data_sheet_c78-521740.html

Trifid · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:55

Sin_Chase said:
IP Cameras, POE is a must.

How many are you going to have on one switch? We are maxing out 3750's with our roll out of IP cameras - around 24 cameras per switch and are now deploying midspans to spread the load.

bigredshark · 30 Jul 2009 at 21:42

I'd go with Cisco's of some kind myself, as said catalyst express units can be had for <£800 quite easily. That's less than £35 a port which is pretty good and I suspect a fairly small cost compared to the cameras themselves.

I'd also say that generally when you're budgeting the solution you incorporate the cost of the switchport into the unit cost surely? Everywhere I've worked that's been done for everything from servers to desktops and ip phones, eliminates nasty surprises and trying to find network capacity on the cheap...

Sin_Chase · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:56

The Cameras cost £500 each

Only ~1- so far so a 24port would be plenty.

K.C. Leblanc · 1 Aug 2009 at 11:25

HP do a version of the procurve 2610-26pwr where only 12 of the ports have PoE. It's available for about £500, the part code is J9086A.

dave-lew99 · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:45

If you want to save a bit then maybe the Linksys / Cisco Small Business stuff - we're currently looking at a 48 port PoE with 4x Gb uplinks (copper and fibre) for £600

There are 24-port versions available, in fact there's quite a few but some only do half of the ports on PoE and whatnot.

Sin_Chase · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:52

Thanks for the suggestions, had a look at the Cisco SB stuff (Linksys for all purpose and intent) but management has decided to go for the cheapish Netgear.

I've aired my opinions on using a Netgear but hey, on their head be it

Caged · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:59

To be fair there probably isn't much difference between the Linksys and Netgear stuff.

BoomAM · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:33

Sin_Chase said:
As per the subject really, Netgear FS728TP for £370 ish but not a fan of Netgear stuff for enterprise level use.

Any ideas? HP Procurve stuff all starts upwards of 1k.

Procurve 2610 w/PoE can be had for under £500.

#Chri5# · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:43

I've got NetGear FS726TP and FS728TP supporting CCTV cameras on a number of sites - no problems with them at all.

Yamahahahahaha · 5 Aug 2009 at 22:10

Netgear are fine, we use some of the gig-e with PoE ports for access switches. Occasionally there's a bad unit but no moreso than Cisco / Extreme / HP.