Gary,
MSU has contracts with Extreme Networks and Juniper (maybe others).
We buy the Extreme Summit x440-24t, which is a 1U switch for about $750, and it includes 24 ports of gig switching, 2 SFPs, and 10 years of hardware and software maint. MSU has an open-order for these.
I know IT Services also buys lots of Juniper switches for a similar cost. You may want to see what you can buy from them too.
-Nick
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From: Gary Schrock [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:30 PM
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Subject: [MSUNAG] rackmountable gigabit switch?
Any recommendations for a decent but not necessarily expensive gigabit
rackmountable switch? Ideally, we'd love to have one that can mount
in the 0U space on a dell rack. On the Dell computer store site all
I'm seeing are the managed switches, looks like they no longer have
the unmanaged ones listed (although I can find them on the regular
enterprise site).
The 0U part might not be feasible, since it looks like even the Dell
ones are saying 1U.
We're looking at doing a very small, simple iscsi setup with it.
Thanks,
Gary
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