What are some of the best GIGABIT SWITCHES for small business ?

[johnpau80]

What are some of the best GIGABIT SWITCHES for small business ?


Just wanted to know some good recommendations for GIGABIT SWITCHES.


We were having the regular 10/100/1000 switches all these days and now wanted to upgrade to GIGABIT SWITCHES.

Any recommedations ? We have 40 PC's

48 port ones ?

 

[wahnula]

I try to pick one company and stick with it down the line, router/VPN, WAP, Gigabit switch and NICS are all D-link, the company that has performed the best for me. This way they cannot point fingers if you have a problem and there is no middleman of another breed.

If this is unpractical, I still like Dlink they have an unmanaged layer 2 Gigabit switch that's reasonable. For managed sitches Cisco is the bomb but $$$. Remember if this is layer 2 to get the biggest you will need. Best of luck.

Tony

 

[LawnBoy]

We were having the regular 10/100/1000 switches

Um, 1000 is Gigabit, so I'm a bit confused as to what you need...

I'm very happy with HP's Procurve switches, but they only use Gigabit for the uplink, it's 100 Mbit to the desktop.

 

[kmcferrin]

Cisco has some nice, affordable, gigabit to the desktop types of switches that you can pick up for under $3000. If you're going for cheaper, LinkSys (which is owned by Cisco) has a nice 48-port 10/100/1000 (which is gigabit) switch with web based management, etc, for around $900.