Cisco SRW2024 24-port Gigabit Switch - WebView

by Cisco

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 16.9 x 1.8 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000701CLE
• Item model number: SRW2024
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 10, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Cementing Your Network's Foundation. A strong business network needs a solid foundation. Formerly part of the Linksys Business Series, the Cisco SRW2024 24-Port Gigabit Switch provides that essential core. It supports gigabit networking, offering exceptional performance over 24 separate connections. Because security is a priority on the SRW2024, no attached device receives information before it authenticates with the switch, and access levels can be customized in multiple ways. The SRW2024 prioritizes dataflow with a variety of traffic-shaping mechanisms to help ensure high performance and clarity for heavy-traffic communications like video teleconferencing. The switch's robust management functions are easy to access with a variety of clients, and its internal monitoring software keeps tabs on your network's every operation.

Overview

If your business was a building, its network would be the foundation. And Cisco Small Business Managed Switches would be at the core, offering the perfect mix of configurability, speed, and stability to keep your network running smoothly.

Cisco Small Business Managed Switches support:

• Flexibility: A variety of port and speed combinations gives you the freedom to match the best product to your price and performance needs. No matter their size, all Cisco managed switches offer outstanding functionality.
• Security: Advanced security measures keep your network and data safe by granting access to privileged users only.
• Reliability: Managed switches offer a number of redundancy and quality features to help maximize your network's uptime. Your business can keep moving forward without the hindrances of untimely network disasters or spotty connection issues.
• Expandability: Cisco Small Business Managed Switches support a variety of quality and power protocols that you may not need at first. As your business grows and you're ready for more advanced network deployments, however, these features will be able to handle them.

Product Features

• Twenty-four high-speed ports optimized to support bandwidth-intensive applications
• Available Ports: 24 10/100/1000 with 2 miniGBIC combo
• Variety of port and performance configurations
• Secure authentication and access limitations
• Quality of service for prioritizing communication
• Remote management
• A variety of fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet port options
• Support for advanced quality of service (QoS) mechanisms to keep your critical, real-time network applications running at top performance levels
• Advanced security functionality that removes the threat of unauthorized network access; this can include 802.1X authentication and MAC-based address filtering
• Optional Power over Ethernet cost-effectively powers wireless access points, video cameras, and other network-connected endpoints by eliminating the need to install separate power supplies
• Resilient clustering provides the ability to add more switches as needed to support business growth, by allowing you to manage multiple switches using a single, common interface
• Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) support lets you assign users to different networks, improving their personal performance and the security of your entire system
• Redundancy features protect the availability of your critical applications at all times

Product Description

This new Linksys rackmount switch delivers non-blocking, wire speed switching for your 10, 100, and 1000 megabit network clients, plus multiple options for connecting to your network backbone. Twenty-four 10/100/1000 ports wire up your workstations, while the two mini GBIC ports allow future expansion to alternate transmission media like optical fiber for your backbone. All ports have automatic MDI/MDI-X crossover detection, so you dont have to worry about the cable type, and polarity detection will even automatically correct wiring errors. Each port independently and automatically negotiates for best speed and whether to run in half- or full-duplex mode. Head-of-line blocking prevention keeps your high-speed clients from bogging down in lower-speed traffic and fast store-and-forward switching prevents damaged packets from being passed on into the network.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Browser compatibility is an issue for me too, March 6, 2007

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B. Keeler (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco SRW2024 24-port Gigabit Switch - WebView (Personal Computers)

Like the other reviewer, I'm disgusted that this product requires Internet Explorer 6 (version 7 doesn't either, you're out of luck if you've upgraded).

This problem has been there for ages and Linksys have done nothing to correct it.

The manufacturer commented on the review belowSee comments

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not great, but not horrible, June 5, 2007

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pcrequest (Twin Cities, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cisco SRW2024 24-port Gigabit Switch - WebView (Personal Computers)

I had to update firmware to get SNMP to function. My current versions:

Hardware Version 00.00.03
Software Version 1.0.0.86

Firefox 2.0.0.4 and IE 7 work fine for me on Windows.

No problems with uptime or reliability. Seems fast.

Documentation spotty and it is hard to get advanced features to work. Support by email equally spotty. If mission critical, shop Procurve.

 

The manufacturer commented on this review(What's this?)

Posted on May 3, 2011 10:48:45 AM PDT

"Cisco Small Business Team" says:

(MANUFACTURER)

Pcrequest-

We're sorry about your previous experience with email support. We've since made improvements and now have dedicated phone support for our Small Business products (www.cisco.com/go/smallbizhelp) so we can better provide customers with the help they need. You can also get help via chat and the Cisco Small Business Support Community (www.cisco.com/go/smallbizsupport).

Cisco Small Business Team

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a Cisco product in a small box, October 9, 2008

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T. Suslin (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco SRW2024 24-port Gigabit Switch - WebView (Personal Computers)

I ordered this switch when we were overhauling our office infrastructure.
It works great, allowed to identify some severe port loads and concurrency issues that caused problems before. Port mirroring for monitoring works great, the limit of 4 ports is still there, but it is expected on a switch of this class.
This switch does not allow for application selection for traffic priority, as much simpler models do, but it gives an experienced user much more flexibility in setting up permissions and QoS.

The only drawback, and the sole reason i gave it 4 stars, was that in an all-Mac environment we had to bring in a Windows machine to administer this switch, since it can only be managed using Internet Explorer. Firefox or Opera on windows box did not work either.

So, all in all it's a great product, but would be better if it had multi-browser support for configuration purposes.

 

The manufacturer commented on this review(What's this?)

Posted on May 20, 2011 4:46:12 PM PDT

"Cisco Small Business Team" says:

(MANUFACTURER)

Hi T. Souslin,

Thank you for the positive comments. We are sorry to hear about your issues with compatibility. There is a new version of this product available that might address some of your issues. The SG300-28 Cisco SG 300-28P (SRW2024P-K9-NA) 28-Port Gigabit PoE Managed Switch.

Diana
Cisco Small Business Team

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