HomeLab - 10Gb/Multi-Gig Switching Options

 As I am sure many of you have found, 1Gb switching is not cutting it anymore, especially dealing with the cabling sprawl of dual/quad port cards, switch uplinks, etc.

Also, as more devices are being upgraded to support 10Gb or the Multi-gig standard (IEEE 802.3bz), reducing cabling and uplinks between devices and switching, while increasing performance and bandwidth is becoming a no-brainer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5GBASE-T_and_5GBASE-T


Here's a quick and dirty of list of some viable switches to look at.


Mikrotik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM

Buffalo BS-MP2012 (12 ports)

Buffalo BS-MP20 (8 port copper)

TrendNet TEG-7080ES (8 port copper)

QNAP QSW-M1208-8C

QNAP QSW-M408-4C (12 port 8 copper, 4 combo)

Netgear XS512EM (12 port + 2 SFP+)

Netgear XS724EM (24 port + 2 SFP+)

Engenius ECS5512 (8 copper, 4 SFP+)

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