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Switch - Good deal(s) and suitability? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by leetzpydev@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hey everybody!

I wanted to get a bit into managed switches, and got the opportunity to buy a Cisco C1000-48T-4G-L for ~360€. Since I'm very new to the world of (enterprise) switches and don't really know much about businesses using / replacing switches yet, I wanted to hear your thoughts about switches and this deal in particular.

Since Cisco switches come with an EoL, I am not too sure if I would just be wasting my money, or if this would be a great opportunity to learn more about switches and also have a device with a decent amount of ports!:)

What would also be interesting to me, is if companies still buy switches like that, that are already older and support 1G ethernet only - I guess it would still be sufficient for most businesses?

I would love to run raspberry pis in a cluster, however since I saw the arm compute blades, I was thinking that it might be smarter to go with a PoE switch instead and aim for compute blades?

Happy about any input, thank you in advance!

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[–] theRealNilz02@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Any switch that does not say cisco on it is a good switch.