Jay Hennigan wrote:
It's the PoE that makes this switch look good to me, not the management. That's just icing on the cake for most small office deployments.
Exactly. That's why I'd prefer a dumb 12/16-port switch with PoE, since it would have to be cheaper than the managed version. It may only be $100 or $200 cheaper, but that's still money I don't want to spend :-)
Since single-port PoE (_real_ 802.3af, not dumb) mid-span injectors can be purchased for around $40 each, I see no reason why putting the equivalent of 12 of them into a switch has to cost $700. In fact, putting 12 of them into a search ought to be _less_ expensive, since there are no cases, no cords, only a single power supply, etc. Right now, though, you pay nearly 100% more to have them inside the switch, as opposed to outside the switch.
In addition, for a small installation, I'd very much like an 8-port unit, or even a 16-port unit with 4-port PoE plugin modules (so I could have 8 PoE ports and 8 non-PoE ports, or any other combination, at my discretion). There are so many companies making these boxes that I find it very hard to understand why no one has tapped this market yet.
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