[150431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Thu Feb 23 17:23:36 2012
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:03 -0500
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201202232153.q1NLr6F7071434@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 04:53:06 PM Joe Greco wrote:
> So, good group to ask, probably... anyone have suggestions for a low-
> noise, low-power GigE switch in the 24-port range ... managed, with SFP?
> That doesn't require constant rebooting?
I can't comment to the rebooting, but a couple of years ago I looked at the Allied-Telesis AT-9000-28SP, which is a smack steeply priced (~$1,500) but has flexible optics and is managed. And at ~35 watts is the lowest powered managed gigabit switch I was able to find for our solar powered telescopes. The grant that was going to fund that fell through, so I'm still running the 90W+ Catalyst 2900XL with two 1000Base-X modules and 24 10/100 ports instead, but the AT unit looked pretty good as a pretty much direct replacement with extra bandwidth.
