Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?
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@stacksofplates said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@dashrender said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
yes - why Cisco?
Personally, unless there is a specific need, Netgear could do you fine, or an Edgeswitch.
Can't stack edgeswitches.
Ok but so what?
Sure the OP mentioned it, but he’s not now moving to a 48 port switch and from the sounds of it will likely have over 15 ports free to start, what’s the time frame expected to need a second switch where this will matter? -
@stuartjordan said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eleceng I'm just curious why the sudden change to Cisco?
Most probably a "Recommendation" from the DCS people. Same happened to us, they recommended Cisco for everything. We went Netgear
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@stuartjordan said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eleceng I'm just curious why the sudden change to Cisco?
Yeah. That's a major downgrade.
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@pete-s said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
The new Cisco 9200L series is commonly used by DCS systems.
C9200L-48T-4G for the 48 port 1G switch without PoE.Yes. Almost everything commonly done it IT is bad. It's a reflection of the businesses in which IT exists. And the average business fails. So common isn't a good indicator on its own.
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Cisco because it's a customer requirement as most of their other gear is Cisco as far as firewalls, routers, and switching.
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@dashrender we will need to add another 48 port unit in less than 18 months but under a different project so that's why I wanted StackWise to be covered in that situation that I know is coming.
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As someone who only purchases this type of gear once in a blue moon what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.
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@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.
You'll get a few different views on this as everyone will have their "preferred" manufacturer of switches.
Like Edgeswitch, Unifi, TP-Link, Netgear etc etcPersonally I've been getting a few TP-Link Jetstream range, they have a central management solution.
But also like Dell for our main infrastructure, only had to phone them maybe 2 times in the last 6 odd years and support and always been quick and polite. -
@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
As someone who only purchases this type of gear once in a blue moon what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.
Hit up DCW. Ask for Yonay, Ami, or Mike.
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@hobbit666 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online.
You'll get a few different views on this as everyone will have their "preferred" manufacturer of switches.
Like Edgeswitch, Unifi, TP-Link, Netgear etc etcPersonally I've been getting a few TP-Link Jetstream range, they have a central management solution.
But also like Dell for our main infrastructure, only had to phone them maybe 2 times in the last 6 odd years and support and always been quick and polite.I THINK he means the reseller. As much as we all want him to deploy anything but Cisco, it's a customer requirement. Assuming that that was true, it's the VAR, not the vendor, that he meant to ask for (the vendor rep.)
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Vendor?
Are you a for or non-profit.
I used TecSoup )IIRC) and got hard / soft ware at a fraction of MSRP.
AFAIK, the two 24 (or 48) port Cisco Smart switch’s are still there and running- fifteen years later. (Hope they have been replaced by now honestly).
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@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR
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@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR
Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread.
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@scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR
Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread.
Was that supposed to be CDW?
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@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
Was that supposed to be CDW?
No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company.
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@eddiejennings said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
Was that supposed to be CDW?
No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company.
I hadn't heard of them.
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@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eddiejennings said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
Was that supposed to be CDW?
No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company.
I hadn't heard of them.
I use them also.
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@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:
@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR
Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread.
Was that supposed to be CDW?
No, what crazy person would recommend them?
