Any change of getting a fanless POE+ switch on the Nebula platform ?

Hi James,

To give some context. It took me a few weeks to find a switch which fulfilled this requirement. I have sent 3 switches back as the official noise readings where within specs in a specialsetup. However, for office use or home use (no server room or special cabinet) they where all too noisy and high pitched. Possibly due to costs using single high flow fans.

I have in the end found a switch from a vendor from which I own a consumer router. It performs flawless and it can handle dynamically up to 8 devices. I needed this specifically as the NAP203 specs stipulate 802.11at, though the max power is rated at 12.8W. As this switch handles the power dynamically it could easily handle more then 4 NAP203 and cover for the spikes (inrush current etc ...) as the ports are nowhere hard limited like I have seen on other switches (e.g. HP 8 port where 2 ports can only be set to POE+)

In general fanless devices with good performance and feature sets are requested regular if of course possible within physical limits.

Could you post it in the appropriate section (Nebula and or Switch/Security Gateway)

Regards,

Dirk

p.s: I'm just dumping my ideas and my optimal requirements as a home user

Maybe add something to this as idea. On bigger switches (24-port) introduce a stepped cooling mechanism where cooling requirements are dynamically changed depending on the actual power consumption.
For example up till 120W in use power no fan, above this low/high speed depending at different tresholds.
Or more static where there is a hard limit that can be used to limit power consumption and therefor the cooling requirement.

This I believe makes the switches more versatile (pro use vs home/office use)