Thursday, December 20, 2007

Cisco CE500

This is more of a rant than anything, but I feel that its very cheap of Cisco to have left the CLI out of their CE500 line. I know that the switch is marketed to the SMB, but common places with 50-250 users still might want the CLI for remote/automated management. Not everyone in the SMB IT dept is a GUI only nut.

Some of us dont feel the need to purchase a $2000+ switch for PoE, and dont need L3 routing forced on us to get PoE. The CE500 does a fine job at switching, and PoE. Just put the darn CLI in the CE500. OK Cisco!

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