[asterisk-users] [OT] switches

[Harry McGregor]

Hi,

For a very basic setup it would work, but I would suggest POE at a 
minimum, and vlan support if possible.

Gigabit uplinks, 10/100 for the poe ports

http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-M4100-D10-POE-Ethernet-Managed/dp/B00AUEYX0Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1424462577&sr=8-3&keywords=netgear+poe

and

Gigabit all ports

http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-ProSAFE-GS110TPv2-Gigabit-GS110TP-200NAS/dp/B00LW9A328/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1424462577&sr=8-5&keywords=netgear+poe

-Harry

On 02/20/2015 12:58 PM, thufir wrote:
> Pardon, this might be off-topic.  I'm reading:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch
>
> For a setup of ~5 agents, would I be wrong in thinking that a generic 16
> port unmanaged switch would fit the bill?
>
> The first model to come up for me in an Amazon search is:
>
> http://support.netgear.com/product/fs116
>
>
>
> Is this a reasonable choice?  Would I be wrong in thinking that most any
> Fast Ethernet switch would be fine for Asterisk?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>