On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > Would like your advice and recommendation.
I like the fully managed ProCurve series a lot. Lifetime warranty. Support and firmware maintenance included in purchase price. Rock solid. They support both CLI (SSH and telnet) and web UI for management, so you get the best of both worlds. Excellent feature set in their layer two switches. (I don't have need for layer three switches.) All around lower cost vs Cisco. As Matthew Ross points out, the 2510G-24 would seem to fit your spec, for less money. NewEgg doesn't seem to carry that model, but TigerDirect has them for $830 (vs $1120 for the J9021A). (In terms of product differentiation, I don't get why both the 2510G-24 and the 2810-24G exist. They specs are practically identical, AFAICS.) > One friend told me to stay away from anything that > says Cisco Small Business. When I was shopping a few years ago, "Cisco Small Business" meant it wasn't their regular Catalyst switch product line. It didn't run CatOS/IOS, and only supported web UI for management, and had a less capable feature set. They were still better than a "dumb" (unmanaged) switch, but not as good as a "fully managed" switch. ProCurve has similar offerings; HP calls them "Web Managed". More recently, I've seen some LinkSys products migrate over to the "Cisco Small Business" line. If I was a Cisco fan, that would bother me. As it is, LinkSys/Cisco no longer even admits they ever made the SVIEW08 KVM we have. :-/ -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
