Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i)

[Henry Coleman [VoIP-PBX.ca]]

I agree for a few phones there is no point in buying PoE routers. If you have kept the tranformers that came with the phones then just get the injectors plug in the transformers and power up the phones from the "head end". There is a big advantage in doing this way . You can select which phones should be kept "alive" in a power fail mode and limit the reserve battery requirements. Each phone uses about 1.2 amps so if you have 10 phones drawing from a single power supply the cable needs to carry 12 amps which is the fusable rate of the cable itself, so if one phone develops a short the it will draw 12 amps and melt the phone and the cable.     Anyway if you need to know more we could take it over to the other list Henry           Nabeel Jafferali wrote: Chad: The D-Link P200s are overkill for your needs. They are PoE Adapters (injector and splitter). All you need is an injector if you are using PoE-capable phones. Let me know if you need specific model numbers. Nabeel www.voipdepot.ca -----Original Message----- From: Chad Kempt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 18, 2006 2:15 PM Cc: biz@taug.ca Subject: Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i) I guess I should mention that I'm a reseller...so I wont be ordering from tigerdirect or anything, it's just that I haven't used any of these low end POE switches before and I don't like trying things out on clients without at least getting a recommendation ;) The same problem exits with that netgear as with the linksys (not just the price), a 24 port switch for an office with 3 phones is overkill...I think an 8 port would give them enough room to add a few more desks. As for needing gigabit, I suppose not they do move some large files around but it's just that gigabit is very cheap in the small switches so it's 'why not'. Of course why not because they don't have POE is a good answer...but 3x55$ for the D-Link P200's and 1x79$ for a 8 port gigabit linksys switch is cheaper than these giant 24 port switches (which are just gigabit uplink...which would probably be ok to use for the server and then 100Mb to the clients). Bleh, I guess in about a year they'll have what I want for the price I want...in the mean time I'm going to have to settle. And Mike Ashton wrote: In such a small install not sure how much Gigabit your going to need, but if it is a concern take a look at the NetGear 24 port that TigerDirect has at CA$381. Is 24 10/100port, 12 w POE and 2 Gigabit coper plus 2 GBIC slots. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-detail s.asp?EdpNo=1697254&CatId=868 Also right now they have a special to get either a IPod Nano or a NetGear Storage Central( until Jun30 ) Chad Kempt wrote: That looks not bad but once I get up near that price range I can get a Linksys SRW224P and propose the cost difference because of the gigabit + QOS etc etc; But I don't want to oversell. I'm still wondering if maybe the three POE injectors from D-Link + a Linksys 5 port or 8 port gigabit workgroup switch wouldn't be a more sound decision. Thanks, Chad Mike Dancy wrote: The trendnet also does the trick. It's a bit more but a quality box. http://www.trendnet.com/products/TPE-S88.htm $299 CDN and yes, I sell them. So I may be biased. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mark Palser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:20 AM To: Chad Kempt; biz@taug.ca Subject: Re: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i) Take a look at Netgear, they may have something, Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Kempt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biz@taug.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:52 AM Subject: [biz] POE for IP phones (ie; Aastra 480i) Evening, Just wondering if there is a more economical way to do POE in a SOHO environment (3 phones) other than using the D-Link DWL-P200 modules on each phone. I was looking for low end POE enabled switches from Linksys and D-Link and didn't see any...before I go ahead and order the DWL-P200's does anyone know of a small 8 port POE switch in the $175-250 range that I overlooked, preferably with gigabit (wow I'm asking a lot for a little ;) ). 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