Mike, Isn't a Cisco 3750 switch a 24 or 48 port switch? I would think that would be overkill since I only need 4 to 8 ports?
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Mike Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > We have ton of MDUs, Cisco 3750 switches. > John Michael Francis II > JMF Solutions, Inc > Wavefly - Internet Voip Cloud > INC 5000 #2593 > CRN Fast Growth #105 > 251-517-5069 > http://jmfsolutions.net > http://wavefly.com > > "People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. > If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. > If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed > anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. > Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent > anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build > anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help > them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give > the world your best anyway." By: Mother Teresa > On 11/2/2016 1:43 PM, Colton Conor 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 > [email protected]http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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