Your Opinion Needed on the Development of Rugged Switches

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More generally on the switch front… I would love to see, in time, three switch lines from Peplink:

  1. SOHO line. Think “designed to go with Balance 20x”. 4 models, with no local console, USB etc.
  • 4 port POE in (4x 1Gb RJ45, 1 does POE in, 3 do POE out)
  • 8 port (8x 1Gb RJ45, all with .at 30w POE out, 2x 1Gb SFP, single PSU)
  • 24 port (24x 1Gb RJ45, all with .at 30w POE out, 2x 10Gb SFP, single PSU)
  • 48 port (48x 1Gb RJ45, all with .at 30w POE out, 2 or 4x 10Gb SFP, single PSU)
  1. Rugged line (passive, plenum rated, dust sealed, wide temperature, 802.1x)
  • 5 port POE in (4x 1Gb RJ45, 2 do 60w POE in, 3 do POE out, plenum rated, shuttered RJ45 ports)
  • 8 port (6x 1Gb RJ45 30w POE out, 2x 2.5Gb with 60w POE out, 2x 1Gb SFP, dual PSU, GPIO, shuttered RJ45 ports)
  • 16 port (12x 1Gb RJ45 30w POE out, 4x 2.5Gb with 60w POE out, 2x 1Gb SFP, dual PSU, GPIO, shuttered RJ45 ports)
  • 24 port (16x 1Gb RJ45 30w POE out, 8x 2.5Gb with 60w POE out, 2x 10/25Gb SFP, dual PSU, GPIO, shuttered RJ45 ports)
  1. Enterprise line (mostly multi-GB ports ie 1/2.5/5/10Gb baseT, can be a mix of speeds and 30/60w POE if required, 802.1x)
  • 16 port (16x 1/2.5Gb or 1/2.5/5gb with 60w POE out, 2x 25Gb SFP, dual PSU, USB UPS monitoring, MLAG)
  • 24 port (24x 1/2.5Gb or 1/2.5/5gb with 60w POE out, 4x 25Gb SFP, dual PSU, USB UPS monitoring, MLAG)
  • 48 port (48x 1/2.5Gb or 1/2.5/5gb with 60w POE out, 4x 25Gb SFP, dual PSU, USB UPS monitoring, MLAG)
  • Fibre switch (24 or 48x SFP28 supporting 1/10/25gb + 6-8x QSFP28 100G ports, dual hot swappable PSU, selectable fan direction, MLAG minimum but prefer stacking, ideally L3 + VXLAN but that could be licensed ad on)

Broadcom based would do all that based on common chipsets (roboswitch, BCM56080, BCM5316X, elkhound or trident 3/4).

Big ask, but it would be an incredible comprehensive yet fairly compact (12 devices, but less than 12 SOC models) range.

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