On 05/03/2007, at 7:28 PM, Andrew wrote:
Sorry I was wrong about the price of the Dell managed 24port gigabit
switches,
They are more like $1500 each.
The potential throughput is the key though, all to do with the
speed of the
backplane.
That's why some switches are more expensive than the d-link/netgear
types.
There was a good review site for switches somewhere...
but a quick search on the Steve Cassidy (real world) articles at
www.pcpro.co.uk will turn up some interesting real world examples
of good
and bad switches.
You only get what you pay for.
I guess smaller surgeries don't need the huge speed across the
backplane.
However when ou start using nearly all the 24 ports you will notice a
difference.
Andrew, backplane speed is only an issue if you are using it - that
is, linking to another, usually identical switch.
Managed switches are, well they're managed - they have an IP and a
web and/or CLI interface. You can do things like create VLANs, you
can see stats on throughput and manage, to a certain degree, each port.
I don't see much need for a managed switch in a surgery situation,
but agree that a better quality switch will give better performance.
As I don't buy Dell I have no opinion on them. I like both Netgear
(but only the metal ones with a built-in PSU ie. the dearer ones) and
Linksys, and dislike D-Link and Netcomm - too many failures seen in
these.
regards,
Peter.
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