If you going to run a new cat5 why wouldn't you just do a FTTH application? Anyways You can pick up decent cisco switches on ebay. I use all cisco on my mdu applications.
Shawn C. Peppers Video Direct Satellite & Entertainment 866-680-8433 Toll Free 480-287-9960 Fax http://www.video-direct.tv > On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am in need of a recommendation for a small Ethernet switch for an MDU > applications. This is a garden style community where each building has > between 4 to 8 units inside of the building. There are 15 buildings on the > property. We would run a new CAT6 drop from a central point in the building > to each unit. This central point would either be in the attic, or on the side > of the exterior wall in some type of enclosure. > > Then we would run fiber uplink from each building's switch to a headend > room. The headend room would have the aggergation fiber switch, a router, and > an uplink to the internet. > > We would hand a copper Ethernet hand off to the client in a unit, and then > the could use whatever router they wanted, or plug their computer in directly > to the wall. > > I think all I need is a switch per building (not a router), and ideally this > switch needs to have: > > - At Least 1 SFP fiber uplink port. 2 would be nice for daisy chaining, but > not required. > - 4 to 8 Copper Gigabit Ports. I don't need POE output power on these ports. > - SNMP For remote monitoring > - CLI or some sort of web based remote management > - Temperature Hardened or able to be in a hot attic > - Some sort of L2 port isolation or private vlans where other subscribers can > see each other. All traffic goes in and out of uplink > - Rate limiting for each individual port > - Full duplex speed and wireline switching is preferred. > - We be nice to be remotely powered using PoE in, but not required. Might be > hard however to get power to the attic or side of building. > > > So far, options that come to mind are: > > https://routerboard.com/RB260GS for $36. Looks like a good option, but not > sure about SwitchOS. Worried Mikrotik won't continue to improve switchOS. > Feature set seems limited. Not sure about port isolation options? Says it > support Poe-In for power. Temp range looks good. No CLI. > > https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x-sfp/ $72. Double the price of the > Mikrotik. OS seems more robust. Seem more like a router than switch so might > be overkill for application. NO Poe-IN power option, but could I used a > passive poe injector to still power it remotely? > > https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgepoint/ The EP-R6 is about $105. Looks like > its basically the edgerouter-x-sfp but in an outdoor case, and this model > supports PoE Input. This smaller unit doesn't seem to have any fiber slack > management like the other units in the edgepoint lineup. Includes POE > injector to power unit. > > I was thinking maybe a GPON ONT per building that has 4 to 8 Ethernet ports > on it. However, there are no small GPON OLTs out there. Plus, most outdoor > ONT's are like $250+ each. > > > What else is out there? I would say price range would be sub $200 per > building max. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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