Catalyst Express 500-24PC replacement

[maloyal]

Hello, we have a Catalyst Express 500-24PC that's 8 years old and seems to be acting up. Phones are going dead and calls will have no sound and/or ring busy. A reboot of the CE500 seems to fix the issues for a day or so.

What is a suitable replacement for this switch? Something cost effective. Only about 8 phones/PCs, a server and printer in this branch office and 2 VLANs.

I searched and found a thread where someone was using this: https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Cisco-Small-Business-Smart-Plus-SG220-26P-switch-26-ports-managed-d/3437905.aspx?pfm=srh

Thanks in advance!

[Philip D'Ath]

I prefer the 2960-X series:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/catalyst-2960-x-series-switches/models-comparison.html

WS-C2960X-24PSQ-L is interesting.  It has 8 ports of PoE.  Note that in our market the 24 port PoE version (WS-C2960X-24PS-L) is actually cheaper - so check out the options.

The 2960-X series also has models with 10Gbe uplinks - perfect for a server ...

[maloyal]

Hello, i ended up replacing the CE500 with an SG300...worked great. But my phones are still randomly going to Fast Busy when trying to make a call. Not sure of the first place to look.

We have a CUCM6.1 setup with mostly 7941's in this branch office. Are these phones losing connection to the CAll manager when they goto fast busy? Resetting the switch fixes the issue.

TIA

[Philip D'Ath]

You really should have gone with that 2960-X ...  are there any firmware updates for the switch?  If a switch reboot sorts the problem it sounds like a switch fault.

[maloyal]

Honestly, there's 2 people in this office with about 8 phones. The CE500 switch I had to reboot it to get phones to work too.

I did upgrade firmware on new switch before I sent it out. (I am remote)

I did make a change to the router bout the time I started having this issue: https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12726376/slow-2801-performance

This coincided with a user in the remote office randomly pluggin in industrial devices and killing ports on the old switch....hence why I thought it was only a switch issue. Now i'm not sure.