Most of our wireless was actually using power injectors, so we stuck with those until we began upgrading the switching infrastructure. We are now using Cisco switches with integrated POE, so we have replaced most of the injectors with those. We only replaced the main switch in each closet with a POE one, but when we roll out VoIP (someday) we will probably need to evaluate midspans once again since I don't see us replacing all of our switches with VoIP capable units.
--Joe -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caroline Owens Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] PhiHong Joe, What midspans did you finally settle on? if you don't mind me asking..... We've been using Powerdsine and I guess I'm looking for an alternative... This question is open to anyone else who wants to weigh in and thank you in advance! Caroline On 11/10/2009 6:31 PM, Roth, Joe wrote: > We ordered some of their managed midspans about 2 years ago, but soon stopped. > > The quality was terrible. Out of about 10 midspans we had to RMA 5 or 6. Some were DOA. Most had issues with their management card. Of the ones that worked the management piece was a pain to configure and maintain. > > We even had one of the RMA'd units come back with different issues than we sent it back with. > > --Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Watters, John > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] PhiHong > > I just ordered some of the new high power models (6, 12,& 24-port sizes). Some arrived in less than a week. The remaining ones took about 2 weeks. > > -jcw > > ------------------------------------- > John Watters UA: OIT 205-348-3992 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caroline Owens > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] PhiHong > > Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about the PhiHong power > injectors? > I've historically used the Powerdsine ones and I'm getting shipping lead > times of 4 weeks on them all of a sudden from my vendor, so I'm looking > for other options. > Actually, is anyone else having that problem as well? While I'm on the > topic.... > > Thanks! > Caroline Owens > Networking and Telecommunications > Saint Joseph's University > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
