We purchased this switch when we needed additional POE ports for VoIP phones. Price-wise there are alternative options from Netgear that provide more ports at about the same price. But when things are needed in a pinch it was good to have micro center ready for us to pick up the same day to complete...

If your looking for a flexible and great value PoE layer 2 switch I can recommend the FS728TP. We installed one of these recently to integrate a couple of wireless access points into our wired network, using PoE to provide power to the access points, all over standard CAT5 cabling.