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Do you guys think I will have any problems with this setup?

Mitel 3300, 50 phones with 5-10 moderate to heavy users. Dedicated cat6 to both phone and pc. About 15 phones and pc's (same building, separate office) are about 250-300 ft away from our main closet. For these 15 phones, we plan to put a switch in a secondary closet and cat6 that to our main closet the 250-300 feet away.

Here is what I would like to do. Four procurve switches, two poe 2610's and two gig 1800's. Each set totaling 72 ports each. Phones go into the 2610 and pc's get the gig ports off the 1800's. The 2610's are layer3 managed with all the standard bells and whistles. the 1800's are "lite-layer3" aka "smart switches".

Are these 1800's worth the trouble? Anybody have experience with these models?

Does the distance to the 2nd closet concern anyone or does the the 2nd switch in that closet mitigate that? Maybe fiber to this closet?

Any and all comments are welcome.

Wouldn't hurt to run fiber to the 2nd closet, and be sure to take the time to set up QoS for the voice properly, but otherwise looks like a sound design.

250-300 feet for CAT6 is acceptible distance but low performence on speed. I would do a fiber.