[asterisk-users] Switch recommendation?

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Woah,

How weird. I JUST bought this off of ebay 2 minutes ago. The exact one.

This will be my first time playing with PoE. I have all cisco phones 
here but I'll let you know how it goes.

> This will be my first major asterisk experiment and I'm trying to
> choose a PoE switch for 15-24 phones. I was going to spend $400 on
> this:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833124053
> 
> but then I see this on ebay:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/WS-C3524-PWR-XL-EN-Cisco-3524-24-FE-Switch-W-PoE-VoIP_W0QQitemZ370043264927QQihZ024QQcategoryZ51268QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> 
> and I'm thinking, hey, thats a lot cheaper and it is PoE. Will the
> Cisco IP phone's proprietary wizardry be a problem for my flock on
> Linksys IP phones? Because as long as it can do vlan qos and poe I
> think I can scrape by for half the price, right?
> 
> Thanks for reading!