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How to Plan an Azure Migration in 5 Phases
18 Oct, 2025
£34.51 inc. VAT
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For £28.97 ex-VAT, this Cisco Business 110 Series 110-5T-D is the kind of small, no-drama switch that quietly saves you faffing around. It’s a good fit if you need a handful of wired ports for a simple office setup—think a couple of desks, an IP phone, an access point, maybe a printer—where you don’t care about VLANs, traffic control, or fancy management. In real life, unmanaged switches just work, and that’s often exactly what small businesses want when stability matters more than “network tinkering”.
That said, it’s not the right choice if you’re planning to grow into something more segmented or tightly controlled. Unmanaged means you can’t cleanly separate voice/data networks properly, you won’t get monitoring/controls, and troubleshooting can be more guesswork if something goes wrong. Also, for a five-port unit, the value hinges on whether you genuinely just need five devices—if you’re even slightly over that, you’ll feel the pinch quickly and end up replacing it sooner than you’d like. Overall: buy it for small, straightforward port expansion on a budget; skip it if you expect your network to become more complex or you need manageability.

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