Favorite SMB Switches
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What are your favorite managed and dumb switches in the Medium Business space? 24/48 port, Gig, POE, etc. what do you like and why?
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Netgear ProSafe. Cheap, fast and decently reliable.
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I hate the Netgear stuff. The last one I bought was required to be managed with some crappy app.
I buy the lower end HP switches.
1910 series. I'll be watching the Ubiquiti line though. -
yeah, i'm keeping my eye on ubiquiti. their pricing is on point and i love their wireless gizmos
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Ubiquiti is not even pre-announcing a switch yet. They have pics but no product news.
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What model required an app to manage it?
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i've already got pricing on Ubiquiti switches.
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@Hubtech said:
i've already got pricing on Ubiquiti switches.
Really? Can you share info? Their site doesn't even show details yet. When do they ship?
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Sure, i'll get a price list. I just have 2 of the 48 porters. i'll get a nice lil list of em all and post it up here.
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Oh do you mean the PoE EdgeSwitch? Those have been around. Thought you meant their new SDN switch.
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I've had good luck with Netgear especially their unmanaged gear. Super cheap.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Oh do you mean the PoE EdgeSwitch? Those have been around. Thought you meant their new SDN switch.
No. you are clearly mixing up products in your head.
The EdgeSwitch is brand new.
There is not a non-PoE model.
They are available and shipping for some models, though in short supply still.There is no SDN switch. That would not even make sense because SDN stands for Software Defined Networking. I can only assume you are thinking of their new Security Gateway. That is not yet out.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I've had good luck with Netgear especially their unmanaged gear. Super cheap.
When it comes to unmanaged, I just buy cheap, anything will do.
The Netgear smart switches that I have used sucked balls with some proprietary software package to manage them. Might have been a lower end model or something, I did not purchase it, but I had to use it. Was horrible.
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I like TrendNet for unmanaged. They have some decent managed ones too. I actually really like Zyxel 1910 for managed. They are coming out with 1920s that have iStacking capabilities which we may look at in the future, but I don't go with anything super expensive.
I don't normally get PoE unless we need it for equipment that is PoE capable but not close to a power source (i.e. SIP speakers up on a ceiling).
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i've had good luck with tp link's little 600vpn router. i wonder if their switches are decent.
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@Hubtech said:
i've had good luck with tp link's little 600vpn router. i wonder if their switches are decent.
The TP Link PoE injectors work great, but I have never used one of their switches.
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I'd actually be curious to try a D-Link managed switch. They had a booth at a certain IT conference last year in Austin and were evangelizing to folks about their new line of gear.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
Oh do you mean the PoE EdgeSwitch? Those have been around. Thought you meant their new SDN switch.
No. you are clearly mixing up products in your head.
The EdgeSwitch is brand new.
There is not a non-PoE model.
They are available and shipping for some models, though in short supply still.There is no SDN switch. That would not even make sense because SDN stands for Software Defined Networking. I can only assume you are thinking of their new Security Gateway. That is not yet out.
They took it down a few weeks ago but he is right. They were running ads for the new SDN switch. It is part if the new phone and router family under their "enterprise" line.
It is white, not black.
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@NetworkNerd said:
I'd actually be curious to try a D-Link managed switch. They had a booth at a certain IT conference last year in Austin and were evangelizing to folks about their new line of gear.
They tried to sell me on it but never followed up after I reached out to them.
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Here is a picture of the Ubiquiti SDN switch. It was all over their site a few weeks ago. Now no sign of it.
