[cisco-voip] PoE alternatives

[Syed Khalid Ali]

Hi 

What about Cisco CE-500 and 502 series, they are really cheap compared to 2960 & 3560 ?

Regards,

Khalid
 
> 
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> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Norton, Mike
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:02 PM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] PoE alternatives
> 
> Anyone use third-party PoE midspans for powering phones? Particularly
> with a 2950/2960 switch?
> 
> I typically have been installing the PoE version of 3550 or 3560
> switches for phones. However, I am entertaining the idea of using a 2960
> switch with a third-party PoE midspan, because it is much cheaper and we
> do not really use any of the layer-3 switch features anyway. I also have
> some future phone installs coming up where there are several existing
> 2950 switches already in place. In particular, I am looking at
> Microsemi/PowerDsine for midspans.
> 
> If anyone can provide their thoughts/experiences with such a setup, or
> other alternatives, I would appreciate it.
> 
> P.S. I am aware of the new 2960 model that has PoE, but it is not
> available in 48-port nor with 1000BaseT uplinks, so by the time I buy
> two and put SFP modules in, a regular 48-port with midspans is still
> appealing.
> 
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