Mike, I agree with you on price point and functionality, but the form factor is a concern. By the looks of the switch, it is not temperature hardened. Plus, there is no way to remotely power it. Meaning I have to get the landlord to supply power to wherever I am putting this switch.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Mike Francis <mfran...@jmfsolutions.net> wrote: > For the price, functionality and stability I think it is a very good > choice... Especially if you are going to do more of these, then standardize > on something. Who cares if it has too many ports. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cisco-Catalyst-3750-24-Port- > Ethernet-Switch-WS-C3750-24TS-S-/262701129682?hash=item3d2a351fd2:g: > bPAAAOSwXeJYGPZy > > Regards, > 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 3:52 PM, Colton Conor wrote: > > 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 <mfran...@jmfsolutions.net> > 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 >> listWireless@wispa.orghttp://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list >> Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing > listWireless@wispa.orghttp://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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