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I haven't found a competitively priced US made product in the segments where TP-Link seems to do extremely well. For home office switches, if we required PoE 1
by vkaku 2y ago
I haven't found a competitively priced US made product in the segments where TP-Link seems to do extremely well.
For home office switches, if we required PoE 1G + 10G ports - the nearest option sold by US companies is 2x the price of TP-Link. There are no competitively priced options (10-20% additional cost) available for these segments. Ditto for gateways.
In the higher end, the campus switches offered by the competition is not even priced at < 10x the TP-Link switch prices. Which means the immediate cost of using TP-Link right now and replacing it with a much better TP-Link 2-3 years down the lane would justify buying TP-Link only. At this point, the expensive gear from competition feels like an over-engineering + cash grab to an end user.
Shouldn't more competition be about lowering prices and increasing choices? Where are the choices? Is there even an effort being made to help the end users of these budget segments?