[asterisk-users] PoE switch recommendations?

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

> As for the larger switches I've used Linksys SRW224P. I have a few
> running for a few years without issues. They have GB uplink but the
> individual ports are 100M.

I recently purchased a few SRW208P switches.  They work fine.  If you  
run Windows.  Granted a lot of people run windows instead of Mac or  
Linux, but be aware (to those looking) that the SRW line of switches  
REQUIRE Internet Explorer on Windows.  The support site says it is  
recommended, but even the login page does not work properly on  
anything but IE on Windows.  For me, as a Mac user, it is enough to  
not buy any more of those ever again.

On the other side, We have a dozen switches in the SGE2000, SGE2000P  
and SGE2010P series that all work perfectly and with any browser I  
have tried.  Some may wonder why I would buy a 24/48-port fully  
gigabit switch.  It is because I don't want to have to think, or even  
keep track, of which port on the wall is PoE and which is Gigabit.  I  
just want to plug it in and work.  I want to be able to tell my staff  
"Just plug your phone in and it will work, don't worry about trying to  
find a power adapter".  The extra money is worth not trying to keep  
track of which is which.  The SGE2000 switches we bought before the  
SGE2000P came down in price (it used to be like 4 times the non-PoE  
version).  Now, at a $220 difference ($880 verses $660) there is no  
question.

Beyond that, they work great.  VLAN setup and use is simple.  Link  
Aggregation works perfectly.  STP works like a charm (no more running  
around trying to figure out what idiot patched their wall jack into  
another wall jack).  The ability to transfer the switches  
configuration to a TFTP server (and HTTP in the 2010 version, 2000 is  
using old firmware) makes it easy to backup the configuration and  
restore it to a new switch in the event of complete failure.

Daniel