Just saw some new product on the Ubiquiti website…they’ve announced a 48 port 10/100/1000 PoE (802.3af/at AND passive 24V) with 2 SFP and 2 SFP+ (supports 1 and 10Gb modules) for up to 70 Gbps non-blocking layer 2 performance, with some layer 3 capability. Also on the feature set are IGMP and DHCP snooping. 24+2 port models (no SFP+) at 250W and 500W, and 48+2+2 at 500W and 750W, with a very nice price point.
Don’t get me wrong…I love my CRS226. But at the moment, not a single vendor I’m aware of has such a capable switch at that low of a price. I’d love to see MikroTik come out with a comparable unit.
Disclaimer: I am NOT advertising for nor endorsing Ubiquiti. I do not own any Ubiquiti switches, nor am I familiar with the prevalence of bugs nor responsiveness of their support team. I am merely commenting on a new product on the market and expressing a hope that MT has something similar in the works.
Of course, I also wouldn’t mind seeing a Top of Rack switch, maybe 24 or 48 ports with 4x 10Gb SFP+ cages, or a 16+ port 10GBaseT switch with 2x 40Gb uplink ports
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I would give up my firstborn if MTK actually did this.Would help a lot in the smaller sites that I have.
The addition of PoE would double the price of a CRS.
But a CCR with PoE would be a quite expensive animal, severely limiting its use.
And usually PoE devices are some small devices that you need to power and collect data from: access points, cameras, IP phones and other similar stuff, without needing individual routing.
Occupying an expensive CCR port with a single such device is not economically sound. A switch would do at a much better price.
I would be happy even with a RB2240GSP running SWoS (although a CRS125-24GP-1S-RM supporting 360W 802.3af and passive PoE (or 750W for 802.3at) with an internal power supply would be a bliss).
The PowerDsine injectors are great rack-mount units, but you do have to be careful about power planning. That unit only has a 200W power supply, so at most, it will only support about 12 ports at the full 15.4W that 802.3af allows. If your endpoint devices only use half that, you can use all ports, but make sure you’re budgeting enough power for your network. Also, it looks like that particular model only has a serial port for management. You may want to consider finding one that has a LAN port (probably 10/100) so it can be managed over the network.
Yeah, I would certainly love to see a 24p or even an 8p switch which can deliver 802.3at/af and passive Poe for my Access-Points, camera’s and IP phones. 2 SFP+ ports like on the CRS226 would be perfect. In fact, even making a CRS226+POE would be awesome. I’m holding off on buying one from ‘the other vendor’ but they certainly have some sweet deals!
Hopefully Mikrotik can get something like this out of the door quickly! It would complete my CCR1009 + CRS226 stack (with 10Gbit interconnect) with such a switch it could become CCR1009 + CRS226 + CRS226POE all interconnected using 10Gbit DAC cables and be one amazing setup!
A CRS with at least 16 PoE ports and double power supplies would be really nice: you could connect the radios of a tower and power them up with some redundancy.
and most probably a less mysterious switch configuration CLI. i mean i like that i have control over everything in /int ether switch,
but 99.999% of the time i’d just set some ports to be untagged in one VLAN, and some other ports to act as .1q trunks with tagged vlans.
Think surveillance cameras and IP phones…
