Cisco Router and switch for home

[Kekegenkai01]

I am wondering what would be the best and inexpensive Cisco router and switch to use for my home. I want them to have the full current Cisco IOS CLI on it so I can practice and gain knowledge for my CCENT and beyond. I also want to use them for my home network so I would like to have gig ports and not fast ethernet. I don't require wifi function because I can turn my current router to AP mode and use that.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

Take a look 1000 series ISR: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/1000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/datasheet-c78-739512.html

They come in a multitude of hardware configurations to meet your requirements.

If the price of a 1000 series is a bit step take a look at the older 880 series which the 1000 series replaces:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/887-integrated-services-router-isr/data_sheet_c78_459542.html

...some of the later models (CISCO886) still have a few months of software support left so are not totally derelict.

cheers,

Seb.

[Leo Laohoo]

Router:  Cisco 900-series ISR

Switch:  Catalyst 1000

Both 900-series ISR and Catalyst 1000 runs on classic IOS, does not support Cisco Smart Licensing (yay!) and will not support SD-WAN/SD-Access.