I have a customer who needs some 48 port PoE switches like -right- now and as we all know, availability of anything I'd normally go with is totally messed up at this point, and we have a firm Dec. 1st deadline to get this expansion done by. I need 3x 48 port PoE+ switches, L2/L3 is okay either way, and some SFP+ ports for "reasons". About the only thing I can actually find in stock anywhere are fs.com switches, which it seems like are pretty generic whitebox Broadcom or similar hardware with their OS on top.
Reviews seem to indicate that they're passable, the web UI is a bit of a mess but I'd just plan on using the CLI. Has anybody used these in a real deployment that can provide some feedback before I steer them in that direction? Realistically the only things that matter to me are setting up a couple of VLANs, doing LLDP-MED for the phones, and SFP+ for some NAS boxes & the uplink to the firewall.
Or, alternatively, any options I should be looking at? Nonprofit, so price is a concern.
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