POE Switch question

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Young grasshopper
Feb 3, 2016
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OK a client is dumping a truckload literally of 24 port cisco 3750's with 2 gigabit uplinks 24 poe 100mb connections and it got me thinking wouldn't these be ideal for a lot of situations? granted you will probably get a used one but these things are tanks and considering they are managed and allow true vlans it seems like they might make an ideal choice for ipcams or am i not thinking of something?
 
They are noisy, so you don't want to use it in your bedroom. Looks like you can get them for less than $200/ea. Model should be WS-C3750V2-24PS-S. The P indicates PoE. 370 watts for PoE.
 
If you have the rack space I prefer Midspans honestly, for example when I made switch from PoE to PoE+ it did not require me to buy a new switch.. just upgraded the midspan, I got a 24p PowerDsine PoE+ Midspan used for ~$100

The main switch is a 48p Dlink DGS-1210-48 I got for $65, both combined will likely take a fraction of the power consumption as an old Cisco switch, those things are electricity hogs.

so for ~$165 I got 48 GigE ports, 24 PoE+ Ports, and it still consumes less energy than a 24P Cisco Switch.

its actually pretty quiet too, I wouldn't put it in my bedroom but I would not complain if it was in my office.
 
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