They come in all shapes and sizes. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/catalyst-3750-series-switches/models-comparison.html
You can find used 24 port ones cheap on eBay or surplus as others have suggested. There are compact 8/12/16 port models but they typically use different chipsets so I shy away from us in them. If you need a good 10/40gb capable fiber switch the 3850-xs work great. They have a pretty nice complement of features to include neat stuff like on device packet capture with IP Services and you can buy support for them from TAC if that wets your whistle. On Nov 2, 2016 3:52 PM, "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com> 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 list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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