Our top-of-the-line switch with incredible 2.5 Gigabit port density, combo ports, and even a pair of 40 Gbps QSFP+ cages. Enterprise-level gamechanger… for the price of a smartphone! mikrotik.com/p...
Nice to see more port capacity for 2.5G than the 8 port that was previously released. Sad that there is still no POE++. All modern MU-MiMo WAPs have 2.5G port and it would be nice not to hang 20 POE injectors off the switch :( Also the 2x40G uplink is a strange choice because Mikrotik does not have any aggregation switches to uplink these 40G ports too. 25G or 100G would have been a better choice of uplink on this new switch.
I would really like to have this switch just to be running 2.5G on my ports, but the price is a bit painful for my home setup. I might try to cram myself into the smaller 2.5G from late last year... Still this looks like a champ so great job!
Love seeing more 2.5gbit products from Mikrotik, maybe this will be the new 1gbit standard in 5-10 years. I was hoping for a CRS310-8G+2S+IN like device with 16 ports, sadly this one is little out of my price range for home use, but I can see how 10gbit SFP+ can be a bottleneck. The redundancy, is lovely.
@@Andrew_Thrift Not yet but close. If you look at PC motherboards, basically all of them still come with 1G, only the top of the top comes with 2.5G+. When you will get 2.5G on low end motherboards, then, yes, you could call it the new standard.
This is great . The more cheap 2.5 Gb options there out on the market the more it will force the pc/laptop market to start bundling their ports with 2.5 by default. Still see too many new machines these days with only 1 Gbit connections out there.
Well interesting product for sure but I have serious concerns: 128 MB of RAM? it's an improvement of 64 MB but is a downgrade compared with the CRS326-24G that has 512MB. 32 MB of Flash is better than the 16 MB of the CRS326-24G but seems very low. Why not normalize all with 1 Gbps for memory and storage and avoid nickle and dime the RAM and Storage?? The CRS5xx has 64 MB of RAM and if you enable dynamic routing or L3 HW Offload the memory will be max out and the switch will reboot (I have a CRS312 with that behavior). 40 Gbps uplink is nice but the whole industry is moving off 40 Gbps and going with 25 / 100 Gbps combos and how these switches will uplink with CCRs or other CRS if they have 25 / 100 Gbps instead of 40? And the price is way off. To have 2.5 Gbps ports + 4 x SFP+ and 2 QSFP is 3X times the price of the CRS326-24G (ahh and no PoE) for 1K USD is overpriced compared with other options in the market (or 3X times more expensive than the CRS326-24G for 2.5 Gbps ports + 2 extra SFP+ and 2 extra 40 Gbps SFPs doesn't make much sense to me). Don't get me wrong I am big fan of Mikrotik but these choices makes recent new products Dead on Arrival for me.
Thats a nice switch but the price shocks me. The CRS354 is and stays my fav switch. I would have liked to get a CRS326 because of 2,5G for my cellar, but I get a 2nd CRS354 and use breakout cables from the 40G and additionally upgrade to 10G. Is cheaper then this new CRS326. 1k Euro for a non POE Switch is just too much for me in my Home Lab.
i would love to see a 2.5G product tailored more for home use from the wonderful team over at MikroTik. 12-24 ports, no PoE is really required. Just so you can have all your ethernet jacks at home covered by 2.5Gbit instead of the 1Gbit that becomes less and less enough especially with those super fast WiFi APs these days.
@@Daniel-nm9rm I would much rather pay another $20 and be able to run mDNS on my Layer3 switch, as well as have a faster processor that is future proofed.
@@dimav83 What? I jave many company with 10GbEtherner for iSCSI and for LAN.. many a graphic station from i$hardware have got 10Gb copper Ethernet - many publishing companies works on copper 10Gb... SFP+ have better latency but I not see any of company tho use SFP+ as LAN connection to florbox.
One Wifi 7 router costs close to $1K these days. A switch with redundant power supplies, 20x2.5G, 4x10G SFP+. 2x40G QSFP+ for the same price as those Wifi 7 APs, is not bad when put in comparison with what others are asking.
@@aliancemd Comparison with Wi-Fi 7 router is in the same stupid row as comparison with smartphones prices in this video. This is not a Wi-Fi router and not a phone. We should compare with today's more common solutions used when you need to create lan for 20-25 devices. The price is pretty high if to talk about 1Gbps vs 2.5Gbps switch - that what I wanted to say in my first comment.
@@mikrotik More and more devices are getting 2.5gbe and utilise POE. For example U7 Pro, Aruba AP25, Minisforum S100-N100 etc. I've personally always used Mikrotik and wanted to keep things that way but looks like I'll have to go with Ubiquiti for now.
No POE++? So no way to conveniently hook up modern fast APs. Come on. I am running an rb-3011+hexpoe at home with a few cap ac APs, but after testing a U6-LR and EAP-670 for my family and seeing how much better they are compared to Mikrotik APs I'm switching to the latter for my home. Looks like I'm getting a TP-link switch with POE++ to power my future APs... Too bad.
yes yes yes finally, this is great switch.....and now i am waiting for new(replacement) CRS326-24G-2S+RM, with normal 1Gb ethernet ports, but with powersuply inside box, improved switch chip, leds on port like this and price about 230-250EURO, and for poe version about 400euro
@@ch3vr0n123 nah mate, they can take the 98DX8525 switch chip and build it, and for 1/4 of the price of a juniper! Just want an upgrade for my CRS326-24S+2Q+
Having more SFP+ ports would be better; four SFP+ ports are not enough. Please consider updating the CRS326-24S+2Q+ model as both storage size and RAM are inadequate.
2.5 Gigabit switch is more like a home network device rather than a business one which more likely to use 10+ Gigabit switches so I find it strange to see a 2.5 Gigabit switch WITH 20 PORTS!!! which is an overkill for a home use I'd like to see 4-10 ports home 2.5 Gigabit switch
@@Almwa7edso which point did I miss? You cry about not having a 4-10port switch for which I gave you the correct model nr and you're crying that 2.5Gbps is a home device and not a business device. Why would 2.5Gbps not be a business device? Or do you mean corporate? Because 2.5Gbps can definately be used in a business. And no, businesses or corporates won't go for 10Gbps per port towards end-users.
