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Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Aug 13 16:52:06 2011
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <7D8EC61D-B65C-4D6B-9264-9E17B00763C1@cs.columbia.edu>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
> Subject: Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
> > 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.
My intuition, Leo, is that you won't *get* a PoE switch[1] without a fan; those
things can be responsible for pushing *a lot* of power, fully loaded,
and there's no real reason for them to be designed without one.
Cheers,
-- jra
[1]GigE, with that many ports.
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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