On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:14 PM, Drew wrote: >>> Barring that I've had good luck with Linksys over the years. We just >>> recently installed a 48port gigabit switch in the office that set us >>> back around $900. Equivalent Procurve was priced at around $3000. >>> >> >> ??? >> >> For $3000 I can get PoE+, 48 port gigabit + two expansion slots (empty), >> vlan, QoS, routing, yada, yada. >> >> What are you getting for your Linksys? Model? > > Linksys SLM2048 SMB Smart switch. 48port gigabit + 2 SFP slots, VLAN, QoS, etc. > > I have to make a slight correction to my price. The equivalent > Procurve we could find was the 2510G-48 which was quoted at around > $1800. The $3000 I mixed up was for a Cisco managed switch. > > It's been one of those days. ;) > Maybe not..it looks like the 2910al 48port gigabit switch goes for a rather hefty price according the Procurve page...$4500?!?!?! I don't remember paying anywhere near that amount and for a PoE+ version at that.