We are planning our first factory large network as a BAS company. Most of our jobs are satisfied by 8-16 port unmanaged industrial switches This time we will have 60+ connections so I’m curious if that would warrant a managed switch? It doesn’t need to be industrial grade given it’s environment and our networking knowledge is enough to get by in the web portal or googling our way through the CLI honestly.
I’ve understood managed for a network with VLAN, QoS, etc but we will only have HVAC equipment and controllers which will all be static IPs. Is there a reason to run a managed switch that I’m not seeing?
No dhcp, no VLANs and there will be two PCs on the network with the equipment. There will be one link to the customer network where their routers and firewalls will handle anything that needs to go out.
And then, since we don’t do this a lot- would a HP, Dell or ubiquiti etc be adequate? (Learning the model numbers)? Would you have a recommendation? 2 48 port switches that are reliable for such an application?
Thanks!!!
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