Hello everyone, I'm building a new house and I try to decide for ICX6610-48P or ICX7450-48P or two 24 port switches in stack (PoE and not-PoE)
I know that my question is already present al lot of time, but I didn't find the right answer.
My needs are:
- POE+ ports for APs, VOIP Adapters, IP Cameras, maybe POE Lighting system with sensors, Video Entryphone and any other device that I can connect (also with PoE splitter) by wire instead of WIFI
- Three 10GB and 12 1Gb connections to my little cluster (2 esxi box, 1 nas) and my workstation (with 10base-t transceiver)
- 16 1GB devices (PCs, RPIs, AV Receiver, Video Projector, TV, SAT->IP...)
- Dual PSU protected by UPS to prevent any possible downtime for critical devices (Alarm, Camera IP, Door Bell, Video Entryphone and so on)
- when I will go to live in, a big media center (now I'm using Emby on my Workstation, but it is full of HDDs) like this one:
4U 24 Bay SAS3 Vmware Storage Server X10QBi Includes CPU/Memory
- power drain is not a a problem
- noise is not a problem (I will dedicate a room in basement)
My concern is about the pro and cons between the two units:
ICX 6xxx is EOL and ICX7xxx is supported, so it means that the first one had the last firmware, while the latter will have new firmware (now 9.0).
But is the new firmware a worth update? Which new features does it have?
ICX7xxx seems to have less port 10GB or 40 GB ports
ICX7xxx have also PoH support (90W), but I didn't find a device that use it. Also the last Wifi 6 Ap uses the PoE+ standard. Anyone could give me a list of these devices?
After all, I ask everyone to convince me which one is the best or alternative solutions.
I'm not in hurry, because the house will be ready and the end on the year
Thank you very much