[Asterisk-Users] cisco poe + netgear

[mjr-asterisk at ranney.com]

Jeb Campbell <jebc at c4solutions.net> writes:

> By far the best poe (price/performance) I have seen for Cisco poe (or
> standard poe) is the Netgear
> FSM7326P. http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=568864
> 
> It is a managed layer3 poe switch (24 port) with 2 gigabit ports also.
> 
> Works out of the box with Cisco and Snoms (it auto detects which
> polarity they want).  No adapters needed for either.  And it is about
> $1100.
> 
> We are using 4 of them and love them.

We are using 9 of them and are pretty unhappy with them.  Its really
nice that they power the Cisco phones, and they are very cheap.
However, we've had about one "lockup" per month with these switches
where the only solution to pass traffic again was to power cycle the
unit.
-- 
Matt Ranney - mjr at ranney.com