Resurrecting an old thread to keep info in the same place for people who do the same search as me..
Is anyone using these? My company is looking for new switches primarily used for dante.
I'm leaning more towards the SG-350, my boss is leaning a bit towards the Yamaha, because of simplicity. But I'm thinking about the $$$ more than him I guess.
How I see it:
The Yamaha is way more expensive, the "Dante Optimized" pitch I guess is just turn off EEE, turn on IGMP-snooping etc on the SG-350.
The SG-350 would need to have all the ports laid out onto a panel, the ethercon-plugs and manhours to do this costs money.
But still the Yamaha would also need to have the plugs on the rear laid on on a panel on the front, so same as above. I don't wanna need to fiddle around in the back of a rack, if it's a tight space it's against the wall maybe etc.
Yamaha has dip-switches to configure premade VLANs, but to be honest if you're out on a job you probably have the time to boot up the laptop which you'll probably do anyway, and just load a new preset-file into the SG-350.
But the overview window in the Yamaha seems nice, although you get the same info but in a different gui from dante-units in dante controller. If one want to monitor non-dante units one still have to have the software up for either switches.
Also there a fiber on the yamaha, but we will probably not be using fiber for several years just because we don't do jobs that big which needs more than 75m of network. So it's paying money for something we don't need, right now at least.
