This was in a discussion from a couple years ago but things change so looking to see what people are using in 48 port switches. No POE+ necessary. I was looking at the Ubiquiti 48 Port. It has a lot of power and is reasonably priced.
48 Port POE Switch Recommendation
The UNIFI line is a nice option once you figure out how you what to manage them. Great network visibility makes troubleshooting issues very easy.
If you like the cloud management solutions Meraki is also releasing some low-cost switches soon too.
I have been using a lot of the Cisco Small Business line, they are stack-able and provide all of the options you might need. Not sure how they compare price wise to the Unifi switches, but they work well.
Which one specifically? It looks like they only have about 350 watts available. These would be loaded up almost full 2 of them.
UNIFi switches will be cheaper and the major advantage is you don't manage the system per device. All UNIFI devices are managed in one browser interface.
I heard from an integrator that Ubiquity requires you to go to a blog for tech support? True/false?
Ubiquiti does not have conventional phone / sales person / local system engineer tech support. They have chat, their forums, etc. This was a point of contention here - Short Seller Claims Ubiquiti Networks A "Fraud" and I saw someone on LinkedIn last week get angry about it. It's definitely different and a negative if you can't figure it out with the online resources they provide.
Take a look at this new offering from Trendnet:
52-Port Gigabit Web Smart PoE+ Switch
TPE-5240WS (Version v1.0R)
- 48 x Gigabit PoE+ ports
- 4 x Shared Gigabit ports (RJ-45 or SFP)
- 370W PoE power budget
- Easy-to-use web-based management interface
- Supports IPv6, LACP, VLAN, QoS, and IGMP Snooping
- Bandwidth control per port
- Private and Voice VLAN support
- Smart Fan
- 104Gbps switching capacity
- IEEE 802.1p QoS with queue scheduling support
Check your favorite Trendnet reseller for pricing.
Switches recommendation/selection depends upon many factors such as Total Power of the switch, power per port of the switch, how many cameras will operate on POE and how many POE+. Also, it's not always required to use Gigabit switches. We have to carefully calculate the bandwidth of cameras and for uplink, we can use 1G SFP. I used the variety of switches including Allied Telesis, HP and Cisco depend on practicality and budget.
In a professional environment, I would use Comnet. You got covered every type of application (PoE, non PoE, SFP, fast ethernet, gigabit, Spanning tree protocol, extended temperature, comercial or industrial, etc), they are made in the USA and pretty reliable.
Hope this helps.
I use Ubiquiti a lot. They have US- and ES- switches, the first one is managed by the unifi software controller (it's very convenient when you have an enterprise network) and the second one is web-managed switch. Same features mostly but just a different way of configuring the device and managing your network.
Like some of the others we have used many of the manufacturers listed above, excluding Ubiquiti. The main thing is to check the overall throughput and POE budgets you need for the application.
For non stackable, basic web managed "Smart" switch we have used these with little to no issues:
Netgear GS752TP
http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/smart/GS752TP.aspx#tab-techspecs
Another inexpensive alternative would be the Trendnet TPE-4840WS
http://www.trendnet.com/products/48-port-poe-plus-websmart-switch/TPE-4840WS
+1 for Ubiquiti switches. I used to use the ES series all the time, but the convenience of the US (UniFi) line won me over. The US line does need a CloudKey (or their UniFi subscription based services) in order to manage it, but the features are worth it. They've nailed the GUI and VLAN implementation.
Any unified users using Ubiquiti product? Thoughts on Cisco 3850? Assuming price, fees are the downer for Cisco product.
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