Original article taken from PCMAG.com
The ProCurve family has been
around for a long time, so it's both robust and mature. The new 1700
class of switches adds a new attribute: low cost (as little as $200).
That's what you pay for the HP ProCurve 1700-24, a decent starter switch for a small business looking
to expand its network port count. A managed 24-port switch for that
little cheddar won't have the bells and whistles of, say, a D-Link xStack DGS-3627, of course. You'll immediately notice that only two ports support Gigabit Ethernet, and there's no support for Power over Ethernet
(PoE). With a rapidly increasing number of networking products,
especially wireless APs and VoIP hardware, that make use of PoE, its
absence limits this ProCurve's ability to act as the center of an SMB
network. The rest of the switch, however, competes well enough with
other 24-port switches I've tested.
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