Hi all,
I'm told Avaya will be discontinuing it's Cajun PoE switches around June. Any recommendations as to a suitable replacement that works well with the IPO? My customer is looking for 96 ports.
Avaya will replace them with extreme but any poe switch can be used if it uses the right protocol
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I personally prefer the Extreme Networks switches to the Cisco. Cisco is good too but I found the configuration easier with the Extremes. Also with Extremes Epicenter software you can communicate with the IP Office. If you are only needing 10/100 look at the Summit X250e-24p or -48p, its new XOS and web management are pretty slick.
I've had good luck with the Dell POE switches. The Dell 3448P (48 ports) and 3424P (24 ports) have enterprise-call management features and optional redundant power supplies. The have high density (48 ports in 1U) and are very attractively priced. The do all the necessary QOS stuff.
Do your research before you buy a POE switch. A lot of the lower end switches don't have large enough power supplies to supply a full 15.4 watts over ALL ports. Most only come with 180 - 185 watt power supplies.
Take for example a Linksys SFE2000P switch. It has a 185 watt power supply and 24 ports. If you were to plug in 15.4 watt POE devices, you would be maxed out at 12 devices. You would be much better served with 3COM's 3CRUS2475 (Unified Gigabit Wireless Switch) which has 24 ports and a power supply large enough to deliver a full 15.4 watts per port.
We've used 3Com's on a number of sites and they've served us well with POE, VLANs, fibre uplinks, Layer 3 switching etc. They're expensive but they do the job really well.
And here I thought I only had to read up on two...guess I was wrong. Thanks DavidCT for the info on the power supplies, something I had not considered but probably should have been the first thing.
Thanks to all and will base my research on:
1- Power rating
2- Ease of installation/programming
3- Product/Tech support
4- Availabilty
5- Cost
Although with you folks, I could probably not worry about #3.
We use either 3 com or HP Procurve. Procurves are great as if they die they are covered for life and you will have a new one on the door step next day.
We have used some cheap Netgears for Powering IP Dect via POE again with sucess.
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