Saturday, November 27, 2010

Cheap switches with VLAN support?

The other day I found myself in a need for a cheap desktop switch with VLAN support for use at home. IGMP snooping would also be fine as I have lots of multicast traffic passing by that switch. I only need a few ports as it will connect some TV’s, a telephone and perhaps a wireless access point.

Cisco srw208 switch

Are there such switches? I found two possible candidates for me. One is the Cisco SRW208 series switches, the other is the HP ProCurve V1700-8 switch. The price difference is marginal, about US$30.

The Cisco switch (the most expensive one of the two) has both serial port for management and IGMP snooping support, whereas the HP switch has none of them. So I went for the Cisco switch.

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