On 2/16/2010 12:01 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
On 2/16/2010 11:45 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote:
Does anyone know of anything like a small, but managed in wall switch?
We had looked at the 3com NJ90 for a deployment. We ended up pulling more wire instead, but it was a cool device. It isn't managed. But from the 3com page I see that they now have new devices, the NJ220 for managed fast Ethernet, and a NJ2000 for gigE.
We have a number of NS220s out there working fine, but they are either EOS/EOL or their clocks are ticking.
There is the NJ2000 series, but they have "issues" with management and proper reporting (our network management gear can't quite properly manage them as the NJ220s).
Jeff
We've used the NJ220s here....PITA. Maybe it's how we use them (multicast traffic and .1q VLANs) but I could never get a consistent view of the quantity of the NJ220s active on the subnet. I found that when passing a fair amount of traffic (> 10Mbps) the 3com management widget "Central Configuration Manager" wouldn't be able to manage the switch unless I reduced that traffic load on the port leading to the NJ220.