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Cisco Catalyst Express 500-24TT 24-Port Ethernet Switch (WS-CE500-24TT)Price:
£438.96
Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series switches deliver best-in-class networking that is designed to meet the needs of growing businesses with...
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Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Series switches deliver best-in-class networking that is designed to meet the needs of growing businesses with up to 250 employees. This family of Layer 2-managed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches offers non-blocking, wire-speed performance and provides a secure network foundation optimized for data, wireless, and IP Communications. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 also offers options for Power over Ethernet (PoE) to help reduce the cost and complexity of IP Communications and enable new uses for the Ethernet network.
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Don't do it.
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Pros: Price only.
Cons: See above comments. Don't do it.
I thought the CE500 was at last a cost effective tool for the POE enterprise requirements from Cisco. Turns out....
1: There's no CLI
2: GUI only
3: No Telnet
4: No config that can be saved and reloaded after you've completely messed the system up.
5: No hardware reset button (Repower, push this button till that flashes, release that btn, etc.)
6: Worst of All.....the smartport concept so highly touted by cisco is a disaster in the enterprise environment. Connect yr port to another small switch because you may have several other items you would like to connect to, and the CE500 in some instances will allow only one IP address per port. Is this written anywhere in documentation? Not that I can find. How's a user supposed to know this? How's the administrator supposed to know this. I can't tell you how many hours of time this has wasted in my company trying to figure out what was wrong.
Buy HP!
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