[cisco-voip] "Small" switches that can provide 48 ports

[Mike Armstrong]

Buying 2 switches increases your per-port cost by 17% and the ongoing 
Smartnet maintenance cost by 81%; not a great deal.  If you plug in the 675W 
RPS, can you then run all 48 ports at max power, as long as both primary and 
redundant power supplies are operating, or is it an either-or proposition?

Mike Armstrong
UF/IFAS CREC
Lake Alfred. FL

> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:14:59 -0500
> From: Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] "Small" switches that can provide 48 ports
> of 802.11afat full power?
> To: "Voll, Scott" <Scott.Voll at wesd.org>
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
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> My guess is it's more of a limitation of the power supply we can fit
> in a 1-U box.  There was a good bit of discussion about this at
> CIPTUG wrt to VG248s, etc.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Voll, Scott wrote:
>
> I do not believe there is.  Cisco Partner suggested just buying 24 port
> switches as you can fully populate these.  Cisco SE agreed.
>
> <rant>
> I told them they must be smoken' something.  What is Cisco thinking?
> CISCO = BEST IPT.... but we don't build a switch to support it.
> </rant>
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Robert
> Kulagowski
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:49 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] "Small" switches that can provide 48 ports of
> 802.11afat full power?
>
> So we've got 3750's in our environment, but we can't have all of our
> 7970's running at 10.2W because that's more than the switch will provide
>
> (it only has 370W available), doing the math, that's only 35 phones.
>
> Without trolling through all of Cisco's marketing, are there any 48 port
>
> switches that will provide the 500W required to run all of the phones at
>
> full brightness at the same time?  We're not looking to get 6500's or
> other monster chassis switches since that's overkill for our
> environment.
>