[Gllug] Quiet/Silent rackmount switch recommendation?

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Tue Jun 22 17:58:41 UTC 2004


Or maybe they have a deal with the electric company ;-)

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 06:10:12PM +0100, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> All rack mounted switches I have worked with have fans, even 12 port ones.
> I suppose the high bandwidth or just reliability means they put in fans.
> 
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