The best network switches are essential if you ... You’ll always pay a little more for a switch with PoE. Devices that you can power through PoE include IP phones, wireless access points ...

See one power-over-Ethernet product and you’ve seen ‘em all, right? Not quite. Here is a Tycon Passive PoE injector teardown.

Cisco’s Catalyst C1300-8MGP-2X enterprise-class Ethernet switch manages small and medium-sized networks at speeds up to 10Gb.