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Comments (37)
Luis Carmona
"Run with scissors? Play in traffic?" Haha, learning the hook lines for articles early. :)
But yes, having a minimum of a "smart" switch can save a lot of time and trouble for everyone all the way around, unless your clients are right next door and you get to bill those high hourly onsite rates.
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Gary Egan
Box shifting companies ADI should stay out of IP security systems. In the world of IP video / access control / fire systems, more than basic parameters are required to be understood than plugging your IP / reader camera into an un-managed switch, well that is if you want it to perform as designed. Managed switch specifications such as Switching Fabric, Packet buffers, DRAM, Transfer rates etc are all important factors when doing your network design and calculations for traffic flows etc. Having the switch support industry standard protocols such as VLAN tagging, Flow control CoS etc. Lastly, if your units will be in a harsh environment, the environmental specs will be important, don't put a regular Netgear unit out in a box on your perimeter where heat and rain will pound it throughout the year, go industrial.
My two cents, or maybe it was five .....
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
The dilemma, commoditized product with margins that don't cover "true" technical support.
This industry has been "bastardized" like so many others, leaving everyone chasing diminishing returns, in turn cutting overhead while in survival mode.
You get what you pay for.
Up front savings, long term headaches and backend $$$ to clean up and correct deficiencies.
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Undisclosed #3
I'll add two more capabilities often found on managed switches as other things that you might want or need to have, although like QoS, typically only come in to play in more sophisticated networks.
One thing I sometimes like about dumb switches though, is their dumbness! When troubleshooting a network; you know right away it has 0 configured capabilities, so you if you plug in a patch and you see no lights, either there is no signal or the switch is fried. Unlike the managed switch that you know you will need to log into to check that it's not setup some crazy way.
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Undisclosed #3
Though had ADI recommended managed switches for "residential and light commercial" use, would they not have gotten ripped even worse, because of the perception of needless upselling?
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Ari Erenthal
03/04/16 05:58pm
I think that the kind of person who would turn to ADI for networking advice is exactly the kind of person for whom managed switches would be more trouble than they're worth.
In a way, this article is kind of a test; if you're uneducated enough to believe it, you're uneducated enough that it constitutes good advice.
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Undisclosed #3
That TP-Link switch is definitely a great value, I think I would prefer paying a little more for that over a dumb switch. Thanks for listing it!
To be realistic though, the comparison should be made from the TP Smart switch to the to SF1080p ($44) instead of the SG1080p ($72). It's true that the SG is GigE, like the smart switch, but when doing small installs without network aggregation, 100 Mbit should be enough.
As for the 4-port vs 8-port POE, that is definitely a plus for the smart switch, but the total POE power budget is the same 53W for both switches...
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Brian Karas
I saw that too. But there is no shortage of cameras that use 5w or less, so 53W over 8 ports still gives you plenty of headroom.
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John Honovich
ADI continues with this. I kid you not, ADI is recommending their dealers to become IT consultants.
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John Honovich
Note: ADI reports that their switch post we criticized was their best read one of the year. Thanks IPVM members!
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