Cisco ME3400. There is a 12-port Ethernet/sfp combo version.

Bryce Duchcherer
NETAGO

From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf 
Of Colton Conor
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:44
To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
Subject: [WISPA] MDU Ethernet Switch

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.






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