I have been using 4 x Cisco SG500's . two POE versions in a wall cabinet & 2 non poe in two cabinets with AV equipment in. However I have been having network issues for a while now and am considering swapping them out. For instance my C4 panelized lighting will not reconnect to the network after a power outage, so I have had to connect the panels straight to the router (Draytek) to fix this. Also Sky Q has on occasion frozen my network although seems ok lately
I am considering Araknis 210 or 310 or pakedge SX as they seem to play nicely with C4 and there are used ones available for decent prices one bay (uk based), however all my cabling comes back to a 48 bay patch panel so I need front patching switch on the wall cabinet whch seems more common with araknis. rear patching on the cabinets is fine but there is more pakedge stuff available on ebay. I don't use VLAN's currently but may wish to do so in the future so would they play together nicely if mix & matched?
The other thing that has got my interest is the standard 48 POE Unifi as it is front patching and is shallow enough to fit into my wall cabinet (i had to use 2 x 24 sg 500 as the 48 is too deep) However I read they sometimes don't work well with C4? I also have unifi AP's which have been great as long as not connected to the ciscos. I also like the idea of managing them in one interface, like the stacked SG500's ahich i guess will not be possible with Araknis or Pakedge
Any comments / suggestions appreciated
thanks