JOSH AI and Switch Question

[rf9000]

All,

Bare with the details on this post. So in my ever growing C4 system, I have decided to pull the trigger on Josh AI for the main level of the home. If all goes well, I will add other areas, eventually getting to about 9 installed Josh AI micros. Yes I know these can run off WIFI with only the first Micro physically wired to the network, but if I have the option to have them all physically connected to POE and the network, I assume this is the best route?

For my network, I have (1) Araknis 310 (24 port), (1) Araknis 210 (24 port), and (1) Araknis 210 (16 port). Other than Josh AI, I will have 32 POE motorixed blinds, 11 POE T4 screens, 5 Ruckus APs, one Dahua NVR (cameras will be connected to this NVR), (12) Samsung Smart TVs, (1) Thermasol steam shower interface, (4) AVR locations, (1) DSC NEO Alarm panel, (1-2) wired ethernet internet connections. I hope I'm not forgetting anything. Man those ports really add up fast. That right there totals 69 ports needed. I know I currently have only 64 ports, so may have to swap out the 210 (16 port) for a 24 port.

For the Josh AI (9 micros), I have an extra Araknis 300 switch (24 port POE), that I was thinking about using. But I would use this only for the Josh AI micros. I really want no network lag and want everything to be very fast. So, I had planned on making the 310 switch the main switch. Then fiber uplinking the 210 switches to the main switch.  Then, linking the 300 switch to the 310 switch via regular ethernet port. What do you all think of this? Will I have any congestion or decrease in performance? Is there a better way?

I had thought about swapping one of the 210s (16 port) out with a 210 (48 port), then I would not even need the extra 300 switch, but the reason I dont have a 48 port is because Araknis doesnt make them with rear port jacks and I was trying to rack mount all the switches. Not a big deal if not. So I guess I could mount that 48 port to the wall and have the rest mounted in the rack if that is a better option, just not as clean looking. Is three switches better than four linked together? Or will there really be no noticeable difference?

[malelan]

might be overthinking this here, but stay tuned for the josh core product that comes out in a few months, you'll want this product on the same switch as your micros, and will likely be okay keeping things completely seperate.