TP-Link Omada 5-Port Gigabit Easy Managed Switch with 4-Port PoE+ and 65W Budget

TP-Link Omada 5-Port Gigabit Easy Managed Switch with 4-Port PoE+ (ES205GP) - 5 Years Local Warranty

The ES205GP is the PoE member of Omada's five-port Easy Managed pair: four 802.3at PoE+ ports sharing a 65 W budget, one uplink, and the VLAN, QoS and IGMP features you would expect from a managed switch — in a fanless 100 mm desktop box. It powers a pair of access points or a small camera cluster and can be adopted into an Omada Controller alongside the rest of the network.

Four PoE+ Ports, 65 W to Share

Ports 1 to 4 supply 802.3at PoE+ and 802.3af PoE, with a maximum of 30 W on any single port and 65 W across the switch. In practice that budget comfortably runs two Wi-Fi 6 access points, or a small group of IP cameras and a door reader, from one mains outlet — no injectors, no separate power at the ceiling. Port 5 is a plain Gigabit port for the uplink. TP-Link notes that its PoE budget figures come from laboratory testing and that actual available power varies with the connected devices and the environment.

250 Metre PoE Reach for Awkward Runs

The ES205GP can deliver PoE up to 250 m, roughly two and a half times the usual 100 m limit, which reaches a camera at the end of a car park or an access point in a far corner of a warehouse. TP-Link is explicit about the trade: ports running in the extended mode drop to 10 Mbps, and actual distance depends on cable quality. For a camera or a door controller that is usually an easy trade; for an access point it is not, so plan the extended ports deliberately.

PoE Auto Recovery Without a Site Visit

A powered device that has locked up normally needs someone to unplug it. The ES205GP supports PoE Auto Recovery, which detects an unresponsive device and power-cycles its port automatically. TP-Link specifies that Auto Recovery operates in standalone mode, while under controller mode the switch supports manual PoE recovery — so on a controller-managed site the restart is a click in the Omada interface rather than a drive to the premises.

Managed Features in a Five-Port Box

Despite its size the ES205GP carries 802.1Q tag VLAN with up to 32 VLAN groups across 4K VIDs, alongside MTU and port-based VLAN — enough to separate cameras, guest Wi-Fi and staff traffic on one switch. QoS classifies port-based, 802.1p or DSCP into eight priority queues with weighted round robin, plus bandwidth control and storm control. Loop prevention shuts down a port patched back into the switch before a broadcast storm spreads, and IGMP snooping v1/v2/v3 with fast leave keeps multicast on the ports that asked for it.

Adopt It Into Omada, or Run It Alone

The switch works standalone through its own web GUI, with DHCP client and cable diagnostics built in. Adopted into an Omada Cloud-Based, Hardware or Software Controller, it joins the rest of the network under one set of policies — TP-Link notes that automatic device discovery, batch configuration, batch firmware upgrading and unified configuration all require the controller, and that Zero-Touch Provisioning specifically requires the Cloud-Based Controller. The Omada app gives phone-based monitoring on the same basis.

Ideal For

Singapore retail units, clinics, small offices and remote sites needing a handful of powered devices — access points, cameras, door readers or IP phones — on a switch that can be adopted into an existing Omada network. Supplied by SourceIT with local Singapore warranty, GST invoice and project pricing on request.

Product Video