Fortinet FortiSwitch 348G-FPOE

802.3bt on all forty-eight ports with a 1560 W budget on dual supplies.

The Budget Depends on Both Supplies

This switch gives 1560 W of PoE on dual AC input and 780 W on a single one - so the second supply is not only redundancy, it is half the power budget. If the design loads more than 780 W of devices, losing a feed does not just remove headroom, it forces the switch to shed PoE. Worth planning the circuits for, not just the rack space.

MACsec and Multi-Gigabit at the Access Layer

The 300 Series is where FortiSwitch adds MACsec - link-layer encryption between the switch and the device - and makes 2.5 Gigabit the standard access speed. For a campus where the cabling runs through shared risers or between buildings, encrypting the link itself closes a gap that VLAN separation does not. A Trusted Platform Module and an 8 GB drive come as standard.

Managed as an Extension of the Firewall

A FortiSwitch can run standalone, but the reason to buy one alongside a FortiGate is FortiLink: the switch becomes a logical extension of the firewall, so ports, VLANs and network access control are configured in the same console as the security policy. That removes the usual split between the team that owns the switch and the team that owns the firewall, and it is why NAC on these switches costs nothing extra.