POE Switch Recommendation

[tony28]

Does it matter which POE switch I use?
I am looking at Dlink DGS-1210-28P (need at least 24 POE)
I checked HPE 2530 and they are 2x the costs.
Are there any features that I should look for that justify paying more?
The switch will be mainly used to support POE IP phones

 

[Evolute IT]

Does it matter which POE switch I use?
I am looking at Dlink DGS-1210-28P (need at least 24 POE)
I checked HPE 2530 and they are 2x the costs.
Are there any features that I should look for that justify paying more?
The switch will be mainly used to support POE IP phones

Depends if you want a manageable switch. Those are more expansive.

For simply powering devices, I like TP-Link a lot. Their PoE switch are great and not too expansive. D-Link is great too but I don't know their Enterprise products enough.

Also Cisco, which people love and hate, but it's pretty much depending on your needs.

 

[Saqqara]

As above, use TP Link switches without any issues, reasonable priced units

 

[cobaltit]

Pretty much anything with a name on it is fine. If you go with the cheapest switch you can find then you should be able to afford a backup to have on-site/on-hand. You can get refurb/used Cisco/HP gear pretty cheap on ebay, and at least for the HP it has a lifetime warranty. We're partial to the UniFi gear. It's basically poor man's Meraki.

 

[AWS2P]

Are there any features that I should look for that justify paying more?

On POE switchs, most important is quality of power supply, and total budget poe available to be distributed, not only the number of POE ports availables.
Also take care if all ports are really POE, sometimes they sell 24 ports switch with only half with POE and generally this kind of device need to use specific ports to have POE for example from 1 to 12.

For my personnal choice i use DLink with no problems, Switchs are generally robust , in more than 30 years I don't remember the need to change more than 3 or 4 that were out of service .

 

[tony28]

Yealink phones uses 7.5W, so 24x8W=192W, so I should be safe with a 24 port switch with a POE budget of 193W, correct?

 

[JohnS_3CX]

Hi Tony,

Best to budget a little more power than the estimate, especially if the devices need to be changed in the future. The switch manufacturer should provide you with the details of wattage per port

 

[eddv123]

It can depend, if you are using small system (amount of users) then you may not need a managed switch however I would always recommend a managed POE switch in the event of user increase or daisy chaining of phones.

The reason being VLAN support and QoS priority, I use this a lot to ensure voice traffic prioritisation. Bit pricey but I like the Layer 2 HP Aruba 2530 series of switches: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/product-c...hes/pip.aruba-2530-switch-series.5333803.html

These offer a very easy to deploy voice VLAN and LLDP-MED support out of the box. As a technician I dont have to worry about cost and more about feature benefit. If deploying VLAN's and QoS however your layer 3 device (router/firewall) should be aware of these values also.

 

[FS_Mathieu]

We use Netgear for low-cost/small PoE and HPE/Aruba for bigger customer !

Note that HP doesn't have a classic 8ports PoE

 

[eddv123]

Note that HP doesn't have a classic 8ports PoE

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/product-c.../pip.aruba-2530-8-poeplus-switch.5385002.html

This is the closest.

 

[FS_Mathieu]

@eddv123 Right but that's not simply a switch, there is SFP ports, customizable ports and 200+$

 

[jasit]

i would stay away from the Meraki switches, I have a free one on my desk from doing a webinar and when I plug in a phone in and it resets the switch (dumb I know.) If the phone is in and I power on the switch it's fine, seems to be the initial power draw freaks out the switch. I have been using the Unify switches and have had pretty good results. Had NetGear 52port poe before and when they powered off and on, occasionally I would lose the poe on a yealink phone.

 

[Evolute IT]

i would stay away from the Meraki switches, I have a free one on my desk from doing a webinar and when I plug in a phone in and it resets the switch (dumb I know.) If the phone is in and I power on the switch it's fine, seems to be the initial power draw freaks out the switch. I have been using the Unify switches and have had pretty good results. Had NetGear 52port poe before and when they powered off and on, occasionally I would lose the poe on a yealink phone.

I have a Meraki switch here and I use it for all my PoE phones. Never had any issues with it. You might have a defective unit or a bad power cable.

 

[eddv123]

@eddv123 Right but that's not simply a switch, there is SFP ports, customizable ports and 200+$

Correct! but for my customers they know the vendors and trust the brand name(s) like Cisco and HP so are happy to pay the extra, which I do not mind supplying as the additional features and ease of deployment (I find HP very easy for deploying VoIP VLAN's QoS and LLDP-MED) make it very easy not to mention a good solution for the customer.

 

[FS_Mathieu]

@eddv123 Anyway I agree with you, we install almost only HP, as you said known brand/good stuff and the Care Pack system is super effective

 

[eddv123]

@INDY_Mathieu

Also an additional point for you, which I think could also be noted, security. The higher spec switches support features such as sticky MAC (or MAC allocation per port) and DHCP snooping.

These will help prevent any old device being able to be plugged into the switch for malicious purposes (man-in the middle attacks). Again, you get what you pay for is the old saying here.

 

[FS_Mathieu]

@eddv123 Yea we used it in a clinic, HP is quite expensive but efficient

 

[tony28]

What is the most quiet POE switch? I found D-Link POE switch has fans blowing fairly hard that it is a bit noisy. It is a small office so patch panel is in open space. Do all POE switches have fans blowing hard to prevent overheating?

 

[AWS2P]

No, some have no fans and are totally quiet, you need to search in features, it's not always clearly indicated. here from HP , you can use a selector to find products with features you need
https://h17007.www1.hpe.com/fr/fr/networking/products/switches/switch-selector.aspx

 

[Rhys Haskell]

We use netgear FS728TP/GS728TP, for the customers not wanting to sped alot of moey on a switch.

They ca handle VLANS, CDP/LLDP and seem to do the job.