[143581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Aug 12 21:18:17 2011
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:17:37 -0700
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In a message written on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> > The holy grail I'm searching for now? A GigE switch with POE,
> > unmanaged is ok, and probably preferred from a price perspective;
> > but with NO FAN.
>
> I can't help with the POE part. I have a 16-port D-Link DGS-1016D
> -- GigE, no fan, unmanaged.
Yeah, found a few of those.
My reason is simple. There are people who make a 4-5 port switch
that is POE-powered, that is it gets it's power on the POE uplink
and then provides 3-4 switched ports with no power.
So if I have a POE central switch, in addition for working for the
direct to Phone and Camera POE device ports it would allow me to
have desktop hubs where I need a breakout without any power cable,
plus they would then all be on the central UPS!
I realize this is a bit of a tall order, as the switch must be
designed to deliver full wattage on all ports even though that might
not happen. I would accept a switch with fans that rather than
just changing speed kept them off until a temperature threshold was
reached.
Heck, even finding 16 port _unmanaged_ _affordable_ POE is very hard, a
couple of 100M options, I don't think I know of any GigE options, and
Managed seems to add $1k to the price, which is steep for home.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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