In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Re (1) use whatever switch brand you’re comfortable with. I like some of the smaller UI switches such as the Switch Flex Mini as they’re very neat, can run off PoE and deliver decent bang for buck. My larger switches I prefer to use other brands, but there’s nothing wrong with the larger UI switches either.

Have you tried the 8 port Ultra switch yet? With the 210W PSU it will give 30W on the seven PoE output ports - it is quite a nice little switch. I'm using one to provide PoE to a number of cameras and aggregate the feed back to the NVR which ultimately goes over fibre. A little more expensive than the Flex Mini but probably worth it.

What I found was that my Zyxel NWA90AX Wifi 6 access point did not work properly when connected to a Ubiquiti U-POE-at Gigabit PoE+ Injector (802.3at/30W) by about 5m of Cat 6 cabling. It would only work when I reduced the cable length to about 1m. I have various PoE cameras that have worked fine over 5m+ distances.

No. Though I've got a Switch XG 6 PoE in my study baby equipment rack (one of Ubiquit's): 4 x PoE 10G capable copper ports and 2 SFP+ cages.

It's a good little switch that one too. I'm reshuffling the deck, so it's currently out of action for a little while.

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

What I found was that my Zyxel NWA90AX Wifi 6 access point did not work properly when connected to a Ubiquiti U-POE-at Gigabit PoE+ Injector (802.3at/30W) by about 5m of Cat 6 cabling. It would only work when I reduced the cable length to about 1m. I have various PoE cameras that have worked fine over 5m+ distances.

My inclination has always been to run from PoE enabled switches (rather than discrete injectors) and I've done so for years using either Netgear (various models), Cisco or Ubiquiti (various models) switches. Never had a compatibility or cable length problem - running a variety of make of PoE cameras, gate intercoms, Cisco IP phones, TP-Link splitters for non-POE devices and miscellaneous other PoE capable devices.

In Suffolk I run about 10 PoE cameras - a mixture of HIKvision mini-PTZ (PTZ-N2404I-DE3) dome cameras and a couple of larger Reolink RLC-423-5MP PTZ cams. These are locally cabled back to Netgear S3300-28X-PoE+ ProSAFE 24-port PoE switches. Most cable runs are between 10 and 25 metres. That particular model and vintage of Netgear switch is no longer made, but they have been good reliable beasts. In the house, its predecessor was killed by my now infamous lightning strike / equipotential surge back in 2019.

For NAS recording etc I use a nearly 7 year old Synology DS1817+ box with 8 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 12TB drives. It's all been humming away for years, and everything is recorded on a 60-day rota.

Netgear GS110TPv3 is a nice compact switch for small deployments: metal case, fanless, 8 PoE+ outputs, but max total 55W so will probably power 4 or 5 APs allowing for cable losses. (U6+ spec says 9 watts)

It has web management, optional cloud management, and a CLI you can enable.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Netgear GS110TPv3 is a nice compact switch for small deployments: metal case, fanless, 8 PoE+ outputs, but max total 55W so will probably power 4 or 5 APs allowing for cable losses. (U6+ spec says 9 watts)

It has web management, optional cloud management, and a CLI you can enable.

I've still got a couple in the cupboard for emergencies. Great little things.

Used them for years. Had two sitting a quasi-stack in Suffolk. When we had that strike/surge, they tack welded themselves together. They were covered in black residue / soot. It was bonkers.

Some of those GS110's doing some interop mockup / testing for someone on here with UI pluggable a few years ago...

With a roll of Global Invacom single-mode cable

Back to back with a MT baby switch

Some of the batshit weird stuff I've connected over PoE...

This a NovAtel GPS/GNSS receiver (for RTK survey and machine guidance correction) that's got a regular ethernet network connection + powered via PoE via a cheap and cheery TP-Link splitter putting out 12Vdc. The splitter is also powering a ViaLite fibre to L-band RF converter for the (remote) GNSS antenna connection for the NovAtel unit.

This was an early mockup / proof of concept, but has subsequently been packaged up neatly in a proper enclosure, rather than the dogs breakfast it is here.

Have you seen the newest UI Switch:

6 x 100G QSFP28 ports
48 x 25G SFP28 ports

Yep just reading their email, from this afternoon. looks like they've just launched.

Look like Ubiquiti are at long last delivering on their pipeline of product which seemed to have stalled from just after the pandemic.

The new U7 Pro access points for example are awesome.