Anyone aware of an affordable 5-12 port switch with proper management & PTP transparent and/or boundary clock support? Primary or secondary market is fine. < $300 CAD, GigE+, PoE would be nice.

My survey so far:

  • Arista - 710P series seems to have good support, but not remotely affordable
  • Aruba - no PTP in small switches
  • Cisco - no PTP in small switches (some industrial models do have)
  • Juniper - no PTP in small switches
  • Mikrotik - CRS326-24G & CRS318-16P support BC mode, but neither hit the form factor and both are a bit expensive.
  • Ubiquiti - Maybe in some of their newer Pro products, but out of budget and seems nascent and barely mentioned.
  • fs.com - IES3110 seems to support at least transparent mode, but industrial form factor is a bit of a turn-off. Seems like the best option though. None of the campus switches seem to have support, though I am curious enough about PicOS I might get one anyway (and maybe one day they add support).

There's the Switchberry project by @geerlingguyJeff Geerling and friends, but it doesn't seem baked yet.

Anything else out there?

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