Hi everyone.
I'm working at a company of 20 employees, and we will be moving to a new office in the next few months. We want to upgrade our networking infrastructure and replace multiple daisy-chained dumb DLink abominations for a single web-managed (or fully-managed with CLI and console port, but they are a little pricey for us) 48-port nice dude switch in the range of $650-$800.
Things we need:
- 48 GbE ports
- PoE and QoS features, because we'll be switching from PSTN to VoIP phones\service
- basic VLAN features
- not EoL\EoSL products
Right now, I'm choosing between Huawei S1720-52GWR-PWR-4P and HPE OfficeConnect 1920s JL386A. Both have some pros and cons. For example, the Huawei model supports PoE on all of its 48 copper ports, while HPE switch can deliver PoE only on its first 24 ports, and it's pretty annoying. Also, Huawei promises uninterrupted power delivery for PoE devices during switch reboots - they call it "perpetual PoE" on the S1700 switch series product page. (But wait, there's more! because S1720 has 336 Gbit/s switching capacity, though we won't be even scratching the surface of HPE's 104 Gbps bandwidth).
On the other hand, HPE warranty provides limited lifetime support (which is a bit misleading, because after EoS support will be provided only for 5 years), while Huawei has only 36 month for S1700 series.
I would gladly opt for something better, like Aruba 2930 series, but our budget for hardware is very tight. Cisco products are totally out of question. New models either are very expensive or aren't avaliable in our countly, and used usually don't have all the features we need.
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