Which Product for SFP + 4 or 5 PoE Gigabit?

[mducharme]

I’ve successfully configured a HexS for the task. I am getting >900Mbps throughput between SFP uplink and any ethernet port. So that is good and achieving its objective minus the PoE ability. I am wondering if a MikroTik RB960PGS hEX would provide similar or better performance? Keeping in mind that ether to ether throughput is not as important as achieving full Gigabit bridged via the SFP port.

Hi Adi,

The hEX PoE could work but its CPU is not as powerful as the hEX S. According to the test results page, it is not a lot slower than the hEX S, only about a 10% drop in performance, so it may still be sufficient for your purposes.

Even cheaper is the 5 port switch RB260GSP, but that only supports passive 24V PoE and not af/at, and also only runs SwOS (switch OS), it cannot run RouterOS. The functionality of SwOS is very limited and so I would recommend RouterOS based devices where possible. The higher end switches all run RouterOS but those have a lot more ports than you need for this.