TP-Link SG2428P 24-port Gigabit PoE+ smart switch

Overview

The TP-Link SG2428P 24-port Gigabit PoE+ smart switch is a value-priced switche from TP-Link, available at Centrix Kuwait with full manufacturer warranty. The SG2428P is a 24-port Gigabit PoE+ switch with four SFP uplinks and a 250W power budget, managed through TP-Link's Omada platform. It is the value option in this class, and the comparison worth making is against the Cisco CBS350-24P-4G: the Cisco costs noticeably more and carries a smaller 195W budget, and what you get for the difference is a command line and Layer 3 routing. For an office powering phones and access points and managing them from a dashboard, the Omada side of that trade is usually the better one. Budget arithmetic: 250W across 24 ports is about 10W per port with everything drawing at once, while any single port can take up to 30W. That covers a full floor of IP phones, or roughly eight Wi-Fi 6 access points at peak draw, or a sensible mix of the two. The uplinks are 1G SFP, not 10G SFP+. If this switch feeds a core that expects a ten-gigabit link, or the building runs multi-gigabit between floors, the uplink becomes the bottleneck and you want a switch with SFP+ cages instead. Omada SDN gives central management and zero-touch provisioning across sites, and it runs standalone from its own web interface if you would rather not deploy a controller at all. Priced at 95 KWD, supplied from local Kuwait stock with same-week delivery and bilingual technical support.

What the Specs Mean

What's In The Box

• ✓1x TP-Link SG2428P 24-port Gigabit PoE+ smart switch switch unit
• ✓1x Power adapter
• ✓1x Rack mounting ears and screws
• ✓1x Quick installation guide
• ✓1x Ethernet cable (varies by manufacturer)