Quiet wallmount cabinets? Anyone got one?

[pete]

I'm looking at the Orion Acoustic wall mount cabinet range: Acousti Products - Orion Acoustic Wall Mountable Rack Range (£300)

 

and the UCoustic 7250 wall cabinet range: Quieter Switches and Routers with the UCoustic 7250 Acoustic Wall Box (£460)

 

To replace a 12U wallmount that's in a location soon to become an office. It's got a 1U 48 port switch and a 24port PoE+ switch and ~90 copper runs and 4 fibre runs.

 

Does anyone have either or a similar product? I'm wondering how much more "quiet" the extra £160 earns me or whether it's just fit and finish improvements.

[dhicks]

Does anyone have either or a similar product? I'm wondering how much more "quiet" the extra £160 earns me or whether it's just fit and finish improvements.

 

We have a soundproofed cabinet in a classroom holding a PoE switch. It actually blocks a suprising amount of sound - our PoE switches are quiet loud, and you do notice them out in the coridors in locations where they don't have soundproofed cabinets, but the cabinet in the classroom is pretty much silent. I can't remember what brand we got, but it seems to basically be a cabinet with added foam all around the inside. Also, (quiet) external fans fitted in the side. If you but something similar, check whether these fans come included or are an added extra.

[pete]

^ Yeah, the two I'm looking at both have foam and 120mm (eyeballing it) fans to shift air left > right in the case. The more expensive one is quietier if you buy the extra top and bottom baffles according to a company rep, but there's apparently not a lot in it between the cabinets.