Reddit reviews Ubiquiti Networks EdgeSwitch 24 250W (ES-24-250W) Managed PoE+ Gigabit Switch with SFP,Black

> Is there are combination Router/Firewall/Content filtering device that is available instead of 2 separate devices that we can use.

pfSense could do that. /r/pfsense or www.pfsense.org. You'd want the SquidGuard package plugin for the filtering. For 15mbps Internet the SG-2220 is all you need ($300). Full OpenVPN support is built into pfSense including site-to-site and remote access. Firmware updates are free forever, goodbye SmartNet. And it's open source-- keep a backup of your firewall config, then if your firewall dies just load pfSense on a PC with two NICs and restore the backup. Instant temporary firewall until a replacement arrives.

Switch- try a Netgear GS728TP. 24 ports + 4x SFP, first 8 ports are PoE+, and it's half the price of the Cisco.
Undoubtedly like 20 people are going to come and yell at me for this and tell me that Netgear is garbage and blah blah blah, but I've used many of these models both at my company and other projects and not one problem anywhere. Plus it has a lifetime warranty.

But if you don't like Netgear, try the Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-24-250W. Slightly higher power budget than the Netgear, slightly cheaper too. I haven't used any of them though, although most of Ubiquiti's other stuff is pretty solid.

If I was building your network, I'd be doing it as above. The whole thing would be done for about $750 in hardware and it would work just as well as your expensive Cisco solution.

I browsed what a lot of other people said, take my information with a grain of salt, I work in IT and do construction build outs and surveillance and security as an all in one consulting shop, my background is in cisco.

Suggestion 1: Ubiquiti

Suggestion 2: Get a decent router, and put your ISP modem into Bridge mode. I'm a huge fan of mikrotik but it's kind of expensive, or the Ubiquiti version

Suggestion 3: If you're going to hard wire EVERYTHING add a gigabit switch in to the last gigabit port on the router, place anything not critical on that switch, if you're going with cameras and AP's, I suggest a Ubiquiti POE Switch But it's VERY Expensive, I'll detail reasons why it's pretty neat to stay with ubiquiti the whole way, but if that's too expensive you can go with this

Suggestion 4: Pick up a shelf and some velcro and a nice power strip or battery backup to organize all this

Suggestion 5: Unifi AP's
Dual Band AC Lite
in wall ap
cloud management

Suggestion 6: Unifi Cameras
all listed here

Or LTS Cameras, but good luck finding them cheap, I'm a vendor and get them for sub 100$

Why sticking with ubiquiti is neat:

All your equipment (except cameras) will show up in the dashboard, your router, your switch and your ap's will all be visible and manageable from a single location (a web page). Granted, I'm not sure it's worth that 400$ switch, but unless you ABSOLUTELY need POE at the switch, you could go with the less expensive edgeswitch, which I want to say is only 200$

Answer: If you use TRUE Wireless Access Points and routers not repurposed as WAP's then they receive an IP on your lan and work as an interface and only pass traffic from wireless devices to your primary dhcp server/router.

It would work as so

Modem > Router > Switch > Camera

And

Modem > Router > Switch > Wap >> Wireless connection >> Devices.


A switch is just a digital splitter for your network, at the most simplest of explanations. and a WAP is simply a translator from wireless to ethernet.

from a person that deploys netgear's for shoretel...do NOT use them...the web based gui is terrible. You might get away with finding one of the higher end ones with telnet but man...I have had nothing but trouble with them. I'm trying to push to have them replaced with ubiquity switches.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2

This is what I want.

The other commentors are giving solid recommendations. To complement their higher-end suggestions I'll toss out a couple of options at the lower range since you're upgrading from equipment that was End Of Sale in early 2006 and End Of Support in early 2011. I'm assuming your client may be price sensitive since they're fine using a basic feature set on a 100mbps switch model that has been highly derided in the industry as a faulty platform.

For the cheapest option I know of that doesn't sacrifice quality, I'll suggest the TP-Link SG3424 -- 24 gigabit ports, LAG/LACP support, 4 SFP ports, physical console port for CLI access (very IOS-like interface and command structure), remote access via SSH and Telnet, and a simple-but-effective web config option via HTTP and HTTPS. I have used these frequently as an alternative to Cisco/etc for price-sensitive customers including nonprofits, small businesses, and education environments with no issues over the past 3-5 years. Price: $250 on Amazon Prime -- http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-SG3424-Pure-Gigabit-Bandwidth-Management/dp/B005B7YVCK/ Its brother, the SG3424P provides the same features along with PoE on all 24 ports for $500.

Another low-budget switch I see highly recommended but haven't tried personally is the Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-24-250W. The tradeoffs compared to the SG3424 are: no physical console port, higher price ($400 vs. $250), and fewer SFP ports (2 vs. 4). http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2/

If you want to assign IPs to each drop I assume you will need to use a managed switch like this. If you want to manage everything in DD-WRT you would assign static IPs to every MAC regardless of port you could use something like this

Thanks. Found it on amazon. Do you think they're worth €450?

The PoE cameras are definitely 802.3af/at but the Ubiquiti switch I linked to supports both af/at and passive.

I think my main concern would be power draw and noise of having 1x 24 port PoE switch vs a combination of 1 PoE and 1 non-PoE switch.

For example, the 8 port PoE switch I'm using at the moment is pretty loud so I've ordered a 40mm Noctua fan just to get the noise down. I need to read up further on what the noise levels will be on this one.

Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated!

So would the Router and Switch combination below work together fine? There are a couple of different EdgeRouters and I just want to make sure I buy the correct equipment. Also, and this may be a stupid question, but do you have to buy the POE Edgerouter or would a regular non-POE EdgeRouter work as well?



Equipment

EdgeSwitch:

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeRouter-ER-X-SFP-US-Advanced-Gigabit/dp/B012X45WH6/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464060336&sr=1-7&keywords=ubiquiti+edgerouter+gigabit

If you think a different Edgerouter would be more appropriate, your feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm kind of new to all of this.

EdgeRouter:

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464059733&sr=1-1&keywords=ubiquiti+edgeswitch#Ask

You could look into a 24-port Ubiquiti Edgeswitch. It will do POE and they are pretty simple to work with but have a full range of features.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeSwitch-ES-24-250W-24-Ports-Managed/dp/B00LV8Z2V2