We have ton of MDUs, Cisco 3750 switches.
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On 11/2/2016 1:43 PM, Colton Conor wrote:
I am in need of a recommendation for a small Ethernet switch for an
MDU applications. This is a garden style community where each building
has between 4 to 8 units inside of the building. There are 15
buildings on the property. We would run a new CAT6 drop from a
central point in the building to each unit. This central point would
either be in the attic, or on the side of the exterior wall in some
type of enclosure.
Then we would run fiber uplink from each building's switch to a
headend room. The headend room would have the aggergation fiber
switch, a router, and an uplink to the internet.
We would hand a copper Ethernet hand off to the client in a unit, and
then the could use whatever router they wanted, or plug their computer
in directly to the wall.
I think all I need is a switch per building (not a router), and
ideally this switch needs to have:
- At Least 1 SFP fiber uplink port. 2 would be nice for daisy
chaining, but not required.
- 4 to 8 Copper Gigabit Ports. I don't need POE output power on these
ports.
- SNMP For remote monitoring
- CLI or some sort of web based remote management
- Temperature Hardened or able to be in a hot attic
- Some sort of L2 port isolation or private vlans where other
subscribers can see each other. All traffic goes in and out of uplink
- Rate limiting for each individual port
- Full duplex speed and wireline switching is preferred.
- We be nice to be remotely powered using PoE in, but not required.
Might be hard however to get power to the attic or side of building.
So far, options that come to mind are:
https://routerboard.com/RB260GS for $36. Looks like a good option, but
not sure about SwitchOS. Worried Mikrotik won't continue to improve
switchOS. Feature set seems limited. Not sure about port isolation
options? Says it support Poe-In for power. Temp range looks good. No CLI.
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x-sfp/ $72. Double the price
of the Mikrotik. OS seems more robust. Seem more like a router than
switch so might be overkill for application. NO Poe-IN power option,
but could I used a passive poe injector to still power it remotely?
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgepoint/ The EP-R6 is about $105. Looks
like its basically the edgerouter-x-sfp but in an outdoor case, and
this model supports PoE Input. This smaller unit doesn't seem to have
any fiber slack management like the other units in the edgepoint
lineup. Includes POE injector to power unit.
I was thinking maybe a GPON ONT per building that has 4 to 8 Ethernet
ports on it. However, there are no small GPON OLTs out there. Plus,
most outdoor ONT's are like $250+ each.
What else is out there? I would say price range would be sub $200 per
building max.
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