About 10 years ago I tried to built my own rack in the basement so noise was not the issue but power consumption was the issue. After connecting a few Cisco swi

About 10 years ago I tried to built my own rack in the basement so noise was not the issue but power consumption was the issue. After connecting a few Cisco switches on my UPS I realized that each one was consuming at least 60-80W being idle which would sum up to a considerable amount of money running 24/7 together with the rest of my planned to be equipment. As I was only going to run this setup for the fun of it, after a couple of months I decided to give the majority of the network hardware away and use gns3 for the limited work I wanted to do