Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?
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 @stuartjordan said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @eleceng I'm just curious why the sudden change to Cisco? Yeah. That's a major downgrade. 
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 @pete-s said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: The new Cisco 9200L series is commonly used by DCS systems. 
 C9200L-48T-4G for the 48 port 1G switch without PoE.Yes. Almost everything commonly done it IT is bad. It's a reflection of the businesses in which IT exists. And the average business fails. So common isn't a good indicator on its own. 
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 Cisco because it's a customer requirement as most of their other gear is Cisco as far as firewalls, routers, and switching. 
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 @dashrender we will need to add another 48 port unit in less than 18 months but under a different project so that's why I wanted StackWise to be covered in that situation that I know is coming. 
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 As someone who only purchases this type of gear once in a blue moon what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online. 
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 @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online. You'll get a few different views on this as everyone will have their "preferred" manufacturer of switches. 
 Like Edgeswitch, Unifi, TP-Link, Netgear etc etcPersonally I've been getting a few TP-Link Jetstream range, they have a central management solution. 
 But also like Dell for our main infrastructure, only had to phone them maybe 2 times in the last 6 odd years and support and always been quick and polite.
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 @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: As someone who only purchases this type of gear once in a blue moon what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online. Hit up DCW. Ask for Yonay, Ami, or Mike. 
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 @hobbit666 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: what would be my best vendor? Prefer someone online. You'll get a few different views on this as everyone will have their "preferred" manufacturer of switches. 
 Like Edgeswitch, Unifi, TP-Link, Netgear etc etcPersonally I've been getting a few TP-Link Jetstream range, they have a central management solution. 
 But also like Dell for our main infrastructure, only had to phone them maybe 2 times in the last 6 odd years and support and always been quick and polite.I THINK he means the reseller. As much as we all want him to deploy anything but Cisco, it's a customer requirement. Assuming that that was true, it's the VAR, not the vendor, that he meant to ask for (the vendor rep.) 
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 Vendor? Are you a for or non-profit. I used TecSoup )IIRC) and got hard / soft ware at a fraction of MSRP. AFAIK, the two 24 (or 48) port Cisco Smart switch’s are still there and running- fifteen years later. (Hope they have been replaced by now honestly). 
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 @scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR 
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 @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread. Was that supposed to be CDW? 
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 @travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: Was that supposed to be CDW? No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company. 
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 @eddiejennings said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: Was that supposed to be CDW? No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company. I hadn't heard of them. 
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 @travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @eddiejennings said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: Was that supposed to be CDW? No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company. I hadn't heard of them. I use them also. 
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 @travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?: @scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread. Was that supposed to be CDW? No, what crazy person would recommend them? 





