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Guys, I am not from the cisco world. What switch will allow goos QOS management and has power blades? Customer right now has Cisco routers and some old HP switches which is causing nightmares as you well can imagine. BTW I am simply cleaning up someone elses mess so any help would be great.

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I have heard better things from Foundry Networks over Cisco. Dont deal with either much except to work on broken Cisco stuff.
https://www.foundrynet.com/

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I'm not sure what the phrase "power blades" means, but I've had pretty good luck with Dell switches and setting up QOS.

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Power blades are for power over ethernet. Not my choice but it's what Cisco calls them. Hey, BTW I am also a Plainfield resident!


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Wish I had more experience with Cisco products. We use powered HP Procurves with Cisco routers in our VOIP installs, but we're not installing Cisco VOIP products (3com NBX).

The thing with HP is that they are providing power over the data pairs, not the spare pairs. No one else seems to do it this way, although it is allowed in the POE standard. The first generation of Cisco VOIP phones was not compatible with the Procurves, but I'm not sure about the newer products.

Not much help, I know, but keep us posted on the decision. I, for one, would like to move toward a unified solution, as opposed to the 3 distinct vendors we use now.


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We use Catalyst 4506 cisco switches and you have a couple of options with the blades. You can use WS-X4148-RJ45V/DC IN LINE or WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V P.O.E (power over Ether)

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Always choose Cisco. No one has ever been fired for buying Cisco.


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You can get 6500 at almost the exact same price point as the 4500 with PoE blades. You are going to get a much better switch in a 6500 over the 4500. If you are going to do trade-in cisco will give you a better trade-in for a 6500 series over a 4500. I would look at the Foundry stuff though it could save you some good money and be a hell of a switch.


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