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Looking to purchase a 24 port (GB) managed switch.

Budget +-R5000 - any recommendations or links and any brands to avoid?

Thanks,
J
 
With switches you get what you pay for, so don't try to save a few extra hundred bucks. Just buy something decent. Cisco is probably the best way to go.
 
HP switches - cheaper than Cisco, have all the relevant features and best of all a lifetime warranty, which I can vouch for. Call in for a faulty switch and a new one is couriered within 24 hours.
 
I love my Cisco products. If you want best value for money it would have to be HP. The only problem you might have is support. There are much more Cisco skilled people than similar HP skilled people. Thus HP skills are more expensive ( for most part ). But any good network engineer should be able to puzzle out an HP switch without major issues.
 
eCliPSe said:
I love my Cisco products. If you want best value for money it would have to be HP. The only problem you might have is support. There are much more Cisco skilled people than similar HP skilled people. Thus HP skills are more expensive ( for most part ). But any good network engineer should be able to puzzle out an HP switch without major issues.
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If you know networking it should be no problem. Just had a quick look at the HP cli and it looks about the same as that of catos/ios.
 
ponder said:
If you know networking it should be no problem. Just had a quick look at the HP cli and it looks about the same as that of catos/ios.
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Fully agree if you are a capable network engineer you would be fine. There are some changes that you would only find when you get into more complex configurations like voice over ip stuff and some QoS.Example with cisco you allocate a vlan to a port. HP you allocate a port to a vlan (HP procurve switches).
 
eCliPSe said:
Fully agree if you are a capable network engineer you would be fine. There are some changes that you would only find when you get into more complex configurations like voice over ip stuff and some QoS.Example with cisco you allocate a vlan to a port. HP you allocate a port to a vlan (HP procurve switches).
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Only time I reckon you will get stuck is if you move to something completely different like Juniper. Never touched one of those but apparently once you get the hang of it it's simpler than ios, or so I've read.
 
Cisco Switches 3550

Seeing as we are talking Cisco and Switches

Anyone know where I can get one of these

Catalyst 3550-12T Switch-10 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1.5 RU

Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches

EOS / EOL

Re-furb , second hand , Used , fell of the back of a truck

About R2,500.00 -- > R3,500.00

Thanks
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OK -- I am all over the place with this post
Question :
eBay has a lot of stuff <cheap> but sellers often do not ship to SA
Has anyone had experience with these guys ?

USGoBuy

Looks like a very viable solution ?
 
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b@nD said:
Seeing as we are talking Cisco and Switches

Anyone know where I can get one of these

Catalyst 3550-12T Switch-10 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and two GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet ports; 1.5 RU

Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches

EOS / EOL

Re-furb , second hand , Used , fell of the back of a truck

About R2,500.00 -- > R3,500.00

Thanks
================
OK -- I am all over the place with this post
Question :
eBay has a lot of stuff <cheap> but sellers often do not ship to SA
Has anyone had experience with these guys ?

USGoBuy

Looks like a very viable solution ?
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Have a look at www.tfi.co.za
 
Desperately Searching

eCliPSe said:
Talking about configurations.
This thing's Vlan database configuration is just weird.
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Wweellll
I really wish I had one to try ......
Got one lying in a cupboard somewhere ?
 
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