Cisco Catalyst 1300-24P-4X Managed Switch, 24 Port GE, PoE, 4x10GE SFP+, Limited Lifetime Protection (C1300-24P-4X)

Great switch! It has a fan but is quieter than expected. I've upgraded all my home network switches to the 1300 series and they're easy to configure if you're familiar with Cisco IOS. I'd call it IOS-lite. I personally prefer to configure them through the CLI. I use a Mac, USB-C console cable and Serial app.

This switch surprised even me. I deal with network products every day, so not overly impressed by a new widget. This switch turned out to be quite nice, easy to set-up and manage. A better than average business class product for sure. Typical Cisco form factor, seems well built and so far has been very reliable. Item has been in use for about a year, I would buy more.

This is a badass switch but it takes some technical know-how to utilize it effectively. I think the Catalyst series is a bit more user friendly and has more of the updated features that beginners may want in a Poe switch. but I bought this one first I don't know.

Works great. I would highly recommend it for the price and functionality that you get.

No issue whatsoever.I recommend.

The description is wrong though, as this switch does not have PoE. It's being falsely advertised. I finally started working on my project and come to find out, no PoE and now I can't send it back... Other than having no PoE, it's very good switch. Again, description should be changed to NO PoE.

I don't spend tons of time in the Cisco command line, so this line of switches has served me well over the years. I just bought these CBS switches as they seem to be the new line of sg300 and sg350 (and xg). If I need to go into the command line I can, but the web gui is very useful for me.With the sg350 some of the cisco command line commands were backwards as maybe a joke; my NOC friend thought it was funny, but I wasn't amused (VLAN allow was basically VLAN disallow).

Buyer beware. We are a Cisco registered partner but needed to obtain a switch faster than our normal wholesale vendor could provide it so we ordered it from Amazon. We got the switch right on time (Thanks Amazon!) deployed it to the client's site and had an issue with it. When we tried to manually reset the device it would not reset despite multiple attempts.We contacted Cisco to open a TAC and after beating our heads against the wall with Cisco Support for a couple months in an effort to get a resolution/replacement we gave up and now are the proud owners of a $500.00 door stop.