I’ve been using an EX2300-24P switch for a while and recently got a brand new EX4100-F-12P thanks to my company Imperium Data. Time to replace my EX2300-24P with this new switch, but first things first, let’s see what’s in the box?
Switch Features:
- 12 x 1 Gig PoE+ ports
- Total PoE Budget is 300W
- To get full 300W it requires the Power supply and
- Two uplink ports in the back will require connections to 90W PSE
- 4 x SFP+ ports (Note: These can be used for stacking also)
- Fanless switch and the whole case looks like a giant heat sink.
- 8 Gig Storage and 4 Gig DRAM
- 1.7 GHz ARM CPU
- 144 Gig Bi Directional switching capacity (64 byte)
- Don’t believe me, read the official data sheet from Juniper here.
Back view of the switch, there is a management port and a console port (Far left). Next two ports side by side are the 10 Gig uplinks that can be used to power the switch as well using 90W PSE. Two 90W links in here can also increase the PoE budget of this switch.
Front view of the switch. Far left there is a claim code (obscured for obvious reasons, don’t want y’all claiming or trying to claim my switch). Next, 12 PoE/PoE+ ports and SFP/SFP+ ports.
Final Thoughts:
Nice little switch, cloud native and it is supposed to have faster sync with the cloud. Will find that out once I put it in production. I like the fact that I can increase the PoE budget on this switch to 300W by connecting 2 x 90W links from a PSE.
What I did not like, is this huge power brick. It is taking up to much space and would have liked it if the switch was built to use a regular power cord like the EX2300-C.
