POE Switches

[fmflex]

Hello all

Just after some thoughts on what would be best practise or recommended. I'm just preparing to move back into my house from a major revonation/extension and working to getting my surveillance back online. I've got 11 cams patched to a panel in my rack and was initially going to utilise 2 TP-Link TL-SG1008PE switches with the cams balanced across both switches as I already have one and would only need to buy another. I would then be uplinking both these switches to another switch which everything else would be pached to (about 36 ports).

I've just been offered a secondhand Cisco SG500-52P for not much more than I was going to pay for another TL-SG1008PE. The specs of the switch is here http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/sg500-52p-52-port-gigabit-poe-stackable-managed-switch/model.html

Basically it's a 52 port switch with POE+ available on 48 of the ports. It's got 375w of total power for POE+ with up to 30W available per port which would more than comfortably power my 11 cams.

What are people's thoughts on utilising just this switch? I realize the old adage of having all your eggs in one basket but it would clean up my rack a bit and free up a bit of real estate. I've got to give a response sometime tomorrow if I want to take this or not as the bloke's not going to hold it for much longer.


Thanks in advance

 

[Michelin Man]

That's the kind of switch I'd run my whole network work, I'd probably even use the SFP ports for fiber uplink.

It is a bit overkill but if you don't mind the extra power that it will use and sound (I imagine it has a fairly loud cooling fan as they usually do) then it wouldn't be a bad option. And like you said it would clean up the rack.

I'm not sure how that would handle a indirect lightning strike but I've killed a few switches this way, I didn't have surge protectors on every line but it didn't take much.

 

[fmflex]

Thanks for the quick reply Michelin Man, my thoughts are the same as yours about it being overkill but it's being offered to me for just over $300 and it's been pulled out of a working environment for a business that's gone under. The noise isn't going to worry me that much as my rack sits in the cubby under the stairs which has a door that can be closed. All the panels for the rack will be fitted with only a cutout in the back door for cable entry.

I think decision made and I'll snap this up as it going to be less overall than another TL-SG1008PE and either 2 16 port switches, or 2 24 port switches or even a 48 port switch.

 

[Michelin Man]

You can always sell that switch later anyways if your setup changes. I'd like something like that for my home but with 24 gigabit ports and a couple SFP ports, if only they were cheaper.

 

[fmflex]

Or I'll just throw it in my IT bits box and save it for another maybe

Initially I was only going to throw a switch on the shelf in my WIR but my partner put her foot down about that and made me go the whole 9 yards. I was fortunate that the existing house was gutted back to frame as well as the extension I was able to easily pull through a ton of cables. I've for 2 cat6 cables fitted off at every point I deemed to wire to for the just in case I need another. Some such as the second cat6 behind TVs etc could very easily to re-purposed for AV. It's just easier to have it here and not use it than to worry about how to get another when I do eventually need another one.

 

[Michelin Man]

I guess you got lucky on that, heaps easier to run wires. I just ran my cables under the house with them terminating into a small box with a rj45 socket. Now I'm finding I need another dedicated port so I can easily test multiple IP cams, wireless aps and etc.