By Rohit Kumar
Publication Date: 2026-03-29 17:00:00
The Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XT-2X is a sweet switch. With twelve 10Gbase-T ports and two SFP+ 10G ports, this offers something many folks might want to use in a 14-port switch form factor. A fun story on this one is that we accidentally purchased the Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XS when we meant to purchase this one. On the plus side, that yielded an extra review in our series. We wanted to cover the C1300 series in a bit of detail since we think that might be an entry into Cisco switches for many folks.
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Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XT-2X External Hardware Overview
The Cisco C1300-12XT-2X is a 1U rackmount switch. We did not have the rackmount ears for it, but they are fairly easy to find. It is also not a full 19″ EIA rack width, nor a half-width chassis at 268 x 300 x 43.94mm or 10.55 x 11.81 x 1.73in.
