[Gllug] Quiet/Silent rackmount switch recommendation?

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

>Er, why would even large switches make any noise? They're
>low-power-consumotion solid-state devices: do the huge ones emit enough
>heat to need fans or something?

Yes. If nothing else, ours[1] have redundant power supplies built in,
each of which has a large fan. They tend to get drowed out by the noise
from the arrays of 1U servers in the neighbouring cabinets, but even so,
they're far from quiet.

Tet

[1] http://www.manucomp.com/cisco_catalogue/cisco_6513_switch.html
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