[Gllug] Quiet/Silent rackmount switch recommendation?

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Doug Winter mused:
> Simon Perry wrote:
>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a quiet, or better still silent, 16 or 24 port 10/100 rackmount switch? I have contacted a
>> couple of manufacturers but they don't seem to have any noise emission data for their products.
> 
> Seems unlikely that such a thing exists to me - rackmount kit is aimed at lights-out facilities, where noise is not an issue.  If
> you want quiet, you'll probably have to go for a consumer-oriented device.

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?

(My fully populated eight-port 100Mb/s switch, with lots of traffic on
all nodes, shows no sign of heating above ambient temperature.)

(I admit myself ignorant about most rackmount kit in its native
environment.)

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