I have personally read the report and the author uses poor and inconsistent methodology. The author compares SoHo products with enterprise class products. Of course the enterprise class products will be using more power than a SoHo switch, but the enterprise class router will offer far more performance, functionality and reliability. The exact products are not stated in report. How can you make an evaluation of products without telling the reader what exactly you are evaluating? Finally, the report just takes the max power usage of each product to calculate its evaluation. That is not an apples to apples comparison since In-Stat has mixed SoHo and enterprise-grade equipment together in one report. There is also no accounting for different loads or the average power use of the product, etc. Just because you read something in a report, doesn't mean you should automatically believe it. In this case, if you look further you find that the report is flawed.

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