As part of an AV installation I need to supply a small switch for media folks to plug various devices into as they need for events (camera controllers, Audio over IP, etc). Given the nature of some of the devices they may plug in, I have a couple specific requirements for the switch and am having trouble locating an appropriate model. Specs include...
- Minimum
- Unmanaged
- (x8) 1G ports
- Non-blocking
- PoE on each port
- No EEE/Green Ethernet/802.3az
- Ideal
- PoE+ on each port
- Diffserv/QoS
- Higher available wattage for PoE(+)
The big factor is no Green Ethernet. The media traffic can be burst in nature and high bandwidth if they do any sort of media over IP. As such, I can't have any ports idle or go into a low power mode when traffic slows down; it needs full power all the time. It seems this is not always documented as to whether a switch has Green Ethernet or not
While I know a small managed switch could work if setup correctly, I do not want to even give someone the option to change settings, hence unmanaged. Some of these end users are students and can be rather, curious.
Thanks!
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