[Asterisk-biz] Talking of PoE ...

[Kristian Kielhofner]

John Daragon wrote:
> bclem at im-online.net wrote:
> 
>> Would you mind telling us what managed switched you found which was 
>> inexpensive?
> 
> 
> I thought someone might ask that!
> 
> I was reeling fron the sticker shock when I looked at the PoE injector 
> that Snom sell in Europe. 24 ports of DC goodness for £1659.93 !!
> 
> Compare this with NetGear's 24 port 10/100 Mbit Layer 3 managed switch 
> with a couple of Gigabit ports and 802.3af PoE and an iPod shuffle for 
> £649.99 retail one off.
> 
> And it's blue.  What's not to like ?
> 
> jd
> 

jd,

	The fact that it is a piece of junk (FSM7326P)!  Bought two, both had 
bad flash after a firmware upgrade (tried one, talked with Netgear and 
vendor, and tried the other once a replacement was here)...  No 
secondary flash either.

	I needed to upgrade the firmware because the switch had MAJOR software 
and interface bugs to the point where it was unusable on a fairly 
standard corporate network with LACP, GVRP, 802.1p/q, etc.

	As a matter of fact, I have nothing positive to say about them 
whatsoever (although I think they do run Linux, which is neat, I guess).

	I am sure some people have had success with them, I just haven't heard 
about it!

	I am somewhat interested in Dell's new offerings of 24 and 48 port PoE 
switches, I would love to try those out...

P.S. - They're really more of a purple, at least here in the US...

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Kristian Kielhofner