Seems that Cisco is moving their trusted state of the art IOS from home/SOHO to upper enterprise market like catalyst 9200. No longer possible to buy Catalyst 1000 serie like switches.
I am looking for a switch that primary does layer 2 and does this at the very best as close as Catalyst would do it. This means no cloud, no lots-of-things-in-a-case, no "lets do it like everyone else is going to to do", no lets-be-"smart".
I need 24 ports, 2-layer, PoE++, multigig, a couple of 10Gig, serial console, CLI, features like IOS down to spaning tree, VTP, VPC or similar, low noise, No Cloud-thingy. And of course alle the standard VLAN protocols
Maybe CRS328 ? It can run SWOS and ROS (but I use all switches when possible with ROS, easier for me). Only downside, Gb Eth only (but it has 4 SFP+ ports).
Or CRS326-4C+20G+2Q+RM if you can handle POE out via other means. But personally I wouldn't choose this anymore due to MIPSBE processor.
All ports > 1Gb Eth and 24 or more of them, doesn't seem to exist (yet).
Wow, thank you for such a quick reply… I have apparently reached the correct forum.
My point about the Youtube video is that it scares me away. I am not looking for a food-processor. I am looking for a switch that I can use at home and also implement at work. It has to be serious and the fact that Microtik puts up such a video and puts it so much in front makes them look unserious as such.
I think we value the same things… CRS328-24P-4S+RM looks nice by first look. It does not have multigig though. How is the noise level?
I have 3 of them installed with customer in a shop environment ( 3 places) in a small closed 19" rack under the counter.
Never heard any complaints about it.
I have one mounted immediately next to me in one of those 2U under-table mounts, and the only time I notice its existence is when swiveling my chair causes the more loosely radiused cables to brush my knees. (The upper 1U is occupied by one of those cable management deals they put at the top of racks, but there is a limit on how tight I'm willing to pull everything.)
My NASes make far more noise, and I selected their designs to be as quiet as possible given what heat they must by their nature produce and the fact that they contain mechanical disks.
It helps that I installed a set of these first thing.
I am happy to be not the only one that considers those MIkrotik "new device announce" videos a detrimental thing for the (otherwise pretty much serious) work the developers of Ros and of the hardware daily carry on.
Evidently I miss some subtleties of Latvian attempts at humour, and I find videos like the one you linked to "inappropriate", to say the least.
It appears to me that Mikrotik prioritise price over leading edge, compensating for the latter with the competitive advantage of ROS and product longevity. Their products are typically very neatly and compactly designed. Does that help to answer the question “Why haven’t they released the exact item I want yet”?
