Hi,
Thanks for the PoE switch suggestions. It looks like Extreme Networks
(X435-8P-4S) and Juniper might actually have some non-astronomically
priced switches that would do what we want. Netgear has some switches
(GS110TUP and GS710TUP) with a feature they call Uninterrupted PoE,
which seems to be the same as Cisco's Perpetual PoE. Unfortunately the
user's manual doesn't mention anything about a fast boot feature.
Whatever we end up choosing, we will probably need to get a device in
our hands to really know for certain whether it is going to work for us.
In the next few years I expect that the Perpetual and Fast Boot PoE
features will migrate down to more SOHO products.
Regarding the suggestion of PoE injection, I should have mentioned that
we have a minimum of 8 PoE devices, so using injection would be pretty
ugly from a cabling perspective. Thanks for the idea though.
galen
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Galen Seitz
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