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POE switch selection to replace a Cisco 3560G

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I'm an IT professional and have a Cisco 3560G POE switch at home (WS-C3560G-24PS-S). I want to replace it with something cheaper. It may sound counter-intuitive to do so, but I really don't need the features it provides and it's getting long in the tooth.

Problems:
It is loud as hell and you can't slow that 4-pin blower down. It's in the basement, but still....annoying.
It's POE is only 802.3af.
It has shared ASIC's for groups of 4 ports - so I have to wire my devices carefully.

What I am looking for is something that has at least a couple 802.3at (30W) POE ports, much quieter (doesn't have to be fanless), better overall throughput and at least basic L3 static routing. 24 gigabit ports. I want to use this switch as my default-gateway for all my devices, not the upstream firewall. That's all the routing I needed in the 3560. And it has to have basic smart switch capabilities - vlans, 802.1q trunking, routing between vlans, SNMP, port-spanning capabilities.

Price is of a concern. I don't care if it's only web based. Any recommendations? I'm looking at Netgear, D-Link, Zyxel and the like. Not HP, Dell, or anything more expensive. Right now, this Netgear switch seems to fit the bill, but welcome feedback or other choices.
 
I'm a Cisco guy, but for a side project I just installed a 24 port Gigabit POE Ubiquiti switch for a client. Overall, it was easy to set up and i purchased the security module so i can manage it from anywhere. I'm not doing any L3, so i'm not sure what kind of routing this thing might or might not be able to do. I am running Ubiquiti APs, and plan on doing security cameras at a later date. It runs a office of about 10.

Unifi Switch 24 (250w)
Unifi Cloud Key (controller software)

After i did the firmware upgrade, the fans are pretty quiet.

I paid about $475 new for both
 
I couldn't see where the Zyxel supported L3 static routing.

But I ended up buying a used D-Link DGS-1500-28P. It appears to have all the features I needed. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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Looks like D-Link lies. I got the switch from eBay and it's louder than my Cisco! Ugh. I'll send it back if I can, or resell it.
 
thrash408 said:
I'm a Cisco guy, but for a side project I just installed a 24 port Gigabit POE Ubiquiti switch for a client. Overall, it was easy to set up and i purchased the security module so i can manage it from anywhere. I'm not doing any L3, so i'm not sure what kind of routing this thing might or might not be able to do. I am running Ubiquiti APs, and plan on doing security cameras at a later date. It runs a office of about 10.

Unifi Switch 24 (250w)
Unifi Cloud Key (controller software)

After i did the firmware upgrade, the fans are pretty quiet.

I paid about $475 new for both
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Theres also the plain old EdgeSwtich 250W if you don't want to deal with a controller. We're slowly replacing all our switches with EdgeSwitch models. I think we have around 15 of them currently operating, with no issues.
 
I'm running a Fortinet FS-224B-POE - Pretty quick easy to set up. I purchased this to replace a failing Cisco POE switch as well.
 
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