Curious if you have any examples of POE items.
The reason I was thinking non POE is because I believe the 28 ports do have fans and have been reported to be quite noisy. That’s really the only reason for me.
Looking at the map near you, we have a good dealer in KC https://www.starkravingsolutions.com/
Or in Tulsa - http://www.pro-ami.com/
or email us directly for other references to a dealer.
Just sent Mstr Matt a PM regarding Los Angeles resellers of Pathway Connectivity gear.Any vendors out in the Los Angeles area? The company I'm putting this together for is out there.
Also, with these switches, I assume it would still be good practice to run separate switches for primary/secondary. So I would need 4 total. I've seen people split primary/secondary between 2 VLAN's on the same switch.. just seems if you're going to have redundancy, you should have redundancy all the way through.. Thanks!
Re: Redundancy, it really depends. Actual failures of switches are incredibly rare. These are devices intended to run 24/7/365 for a decade at a time. With any type of redundancy, you need to identify where to draw a line. If you have separate switches, are you going to feed them from different UPS's or different power sources? Run the cables down different paths in case someone runs over a cable pathway with a forklift? Run a completely 2nd mix surface in case the first one goes down? Which nature of failures are you trying to protect against?
I'm not going to deter you from doing primary and secondary on separate switches if it makes you feel more comfortable, but in most cases that level of redundancy doesn't gain you very much unless you are really pulling out more stops. With the Ciscos it's relatively cheap to do, but if you feel more comfortable with the Pathways, I personally would not spend the money on a secondary set of switches unless you are engaged in broadcast or presidential address type events where the cost of the extra switches is absolutely negligible relative to the ticket or ad revenue of those events.
And even going fully redundant in every possible way doesn't prevent both networks from getting killed simultaneously. Fun fact, when you have a Lake LM-44 processor in redundant mode get locked up and tech support has you do a hard reset, turns out that the LM-44's default back into daisy-chain mode, bridging the primary and secondary, crossing the streams and suffocating the entire Dante system across the whole venue. Ask me how I know that.
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