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MindfulAmbience
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PoE switch with 10Gb RJ45 interfaces that supports MCLAG (series 200 and up)

FAP-441K APs have two 10/5/2.5/1 Gb RJ45 network interfaces.  But, does Fortinet make a PoE switch with a 10 Gb RJ45 port that also supports MCLAG?  If they don’t….why put 10Gb in the APs?

 
Best I could find was the FS-648F-FPOE where 16 of the ports are 5Gb RJ45.
 
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MindfulAmbience
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The FS-T1024F-FPOE seems like the only Fortinet switch which can fully leverage the FAP-441K AP's 10Gb bandwidth.  That's short-sighted.  A core / top-of-rack switch shouldn't be powering your APs.  Fortinet needs a 4xx / 6xx-level access switch with 8 or 16 PoE++ ports at 10Gb to handle their top-end APs.  Hopefully this happens in the pending G-series switches.

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