I've been doing many web searches for a small PoE+ switch that is known to work well with the R710, but it seems like all I can find is stories about switches with problems not working with 802.3at and the R710.
I need to find a small, inexpensive PoE+ switch (8 ports) to supply power to a max of five R710 APs. It needs to support 802.1q vlans since it will be connected to an upstream switch that is Cisco Catalyst family. It also needs to be pretty inexpensive too... I spent almost all of my budget for this project on five R710s and a ZoneDirector 1200.
Is there a brand and model of inexpensive PoE+ switch that is absolutely 100% known to just simply work with the R710 without a bunch of config hassles or other wierdnesses?
Posted 3 years ago
Someone else posted that the entire Cisco SG300 line is no-go with the R710 and negotiating 802.3at power. I can't remember where I read that though.... I was already looking at the SG300-10MPP as a possible candidate when I found the post.
I may just have to run this new set of R710 APs on legacy 802.3af instead. I just found I had a spare Cisco compact C3560 8-port 10/100 switch that got removed from a remote office and it's got 124W of PoE capacity. The Internet feed that will be supplying this installation is only 50Mbps anyway, so that will be the real bandwidth bottleneck, and not the 10/100 ports of the switch. Maybe next year I can get the budget for a PoE+ gigabit switch to get rid of the radio limitations of running the R710 on 802.3af power.
John D, AlphaDog
If you're not planning on heavily using 2.4GHz (and I don't think 2.4GHz and either capacity or bandwidth get said a lot in the same sentence!), I don't see the huge advantage of insisting on 802.3at for R710. There's no compromise on 5GHz and the compromise on 2.4GHz is pretty minimal.
The majority of client wifi devices at the location are still 2.4GHz, although that is changing as time marches on. Right now the WiFi infrastructure there is 3 Cisco Aironet APs, 2 of them do 802.11an, and one is only 802.11bg. The internet feed is only hardwired to one of the 802.11an APs and the other two APs are wireless repeater-clients off of the first one. They're actually not doing a terribly bad job most of the time, but whenever the city council meeting hall gets really jam-packed full of people, the Ciscos fall on their faces and implode, sometimes hanging up so badly I have to power-cycle them.
The Ruckus R710s ought to blow the old Ciscos away when the client density peaks, even with the reduced function of the 2.4 radios.
John D, AlphaDog
Ah, gotcha. I definitely expect the 710 to blow away those older Cisco units, and the reduced 2.4GHz functionality of the R710 matches the functionality (3 spatial stream, slightly weaker transmit power, much better Rx sensitivity) of some of the lower-end Ruckus AP's, which are already phenomenal.
So I've used the heck out of various Microsemi PowerDsine products, both single port and multiple port. Love them.
Single Port: http://www.microsemi.com/products/poe-systems/pd-9501g#introduction
Multiport: http://www.microsemi.com/products/poe-systems/pd-9500g-4-pair-high-power-family
They have many offerings, so take a look around, but I believe the 9500 series is what you want from a POE+ need.
Actually I like them so much, I will not be buying POE switches when I replace but will add these instead. A little extra cabling but very cheap considering and they just work.
Single Port: http://www.microsemi.com/products/poe-systems/pd-9501g#introduction
Multiport: http://www.microsemi.com/products/poe-systems/pd-9500g-4-pair-high-power-family
They have many offerings, so take a look around, but I believe the 9500 series is what you want from a POE+ need.
Actually I like them so much, I will not be buying POE switches when I replace but will add these instead. A little extra cabling but very cheap considering and they just work.
A hundred bucks for a single port unit and a thousand bucks for a 6-port rack mount PoE injector is exhorbitant prices.
I started with single ports. but now I buy the 24 port models for ~ $1,000. I have no idea what a 6 port costs.
The 24-port model is $1499 list price.
The 6-port model is $1199 list price.
My budget for a PoE+ switch would've been about $300.
I need power for only 5 APs and the unit has to be located in a small audio/video closet at the back of a city council meeting auditorium, very far away from the main computer room or even the nearest regular network wiring closet since the building is very old (circa 1927) and its layout is terrible for network wiring.
The Cisco Small Business SG300-10MPP would've been perfect for $230 at newegg, too bad there is some sort of unresolvable 802.3at incompatibility between it and the R710
Monnat Systems, AlphaDog
how about ZyXEL GS1900 Series of 8/16/24-port GbE Smart Managed Switch with Gigabit speed with the IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus standard. also supports LLDP and IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging ???
ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/GS1900-8HP/datash...
they are not that expensive on ebay 8 port switch is less than $100
ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/GS1900-8HP/datash...
they are not that expensive on ebay 8 port switch is less than $100
Does the ZyXEL GS1900 Series confirmed to work for the R710???, I really want to know since my R710 is stuck at af mode ?
I currently have a Engenius EGS5212FP which support LLDP, but doesn't seem to have LLDP power via MDI support or at least I can't find any documentation even in the CLI manual.
I currently have a Engenius EGS5212FP which support LLDP, but doesn't seem to have LLDP power via MDI support or at least I can't find any documentation even in the CLI manual.
