Enhanced Scalability & Network Convergence for Growing Businesses The Pro Safe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch family is unique in delivering the scalability, reliability, & performance growing small & medium-sized businesses need in an affordable & easy-to-manage package. The NETGEAR′s Second Generation of these Stackable Smart Switches consists of 4 models in 28/52-port configuration with or without Po E option. They come with more port density & a total of 6 SFP ports for fiber connectivity. Among them, 2 are shared, & the other 4 are dedicated for either stacking or uplinks. This new generation of Stackable Smart Switches offers more flexibility & scalability that will make it easier & non-interruptive for growing businesses to expand their network capacity. Stacking for Scalability & High Availability The new Generation of Stackable Smart Switches use 2 dedicated ports in the front of the switch for stacking, providing a 10 Gbps, dual-ring, highly redundant stacking bus that carries intra-stack traffic & provide highest level of resilience, allowing you to stack up to six switches or up to 300 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, forming a virtual chassis for easy management under a single IP address. This stacking technology also provides several high-availability features to ensure business continuity:
- Resiliency: Due to redundant stacking port connections, there is an automatic fail-over in case any switch in the stack fails, with rapid reconfiguration, thus preventing network downtime.
- Hot-swappable: All switches in the stack are hot-swappable, & can be integrated or removed without disrupting the network. All switches in the stack are hot-swappable, & can be integrated or removed without disrupting the network These Stackable Smart Switches come with a complete suite of advanced features for more robust security, higher quality of service & high availability. This switch is equipped with highly advanced features such as access control lists (ACL), static routing, rate limiting, IGMP snooping, & Dynamic VLAN assignment among others to provide a small & medium sized business with a network that is geared for growth while providing scalability & reliability. Advanced Security These switches also provide advanced features that provide more robust security to SMBs. These include:
- 802.1x for authentication.
- ACL filtering to permit or deny traffic based on MAC and/or IP addresses. Advanced Quality of Service (Qo S) Priority queuing ensures high-priority traffic gets delivered efficiently, even during congestion from high traffic bursts. Companies implementing network telephony or video conferencing, for example, need to be able to prioritize such voice & video traffic & other real-time applications over less latency-sensitive traffic to ensure reliability & quality. The ability to prioritize traffic ensures quality of latency-sensitive services & applications despite increasing traffic loads. Friendly to converged network with voice & video, the Stackable Smart Switches offers Auto Voice & Auto Video features that automatically configures Qo S, Security & VLAN settings for IP phones & IP cameras. IPv 6 Support IGMP filtering & querier ensure multicast streams are only delivered to interested receivers, preventing flooding even without a dedicated multicast router. When receivers are in different VLANs, Multicast VLAN registration (MVR) uses a dedicated multicast VLAN to forward multicast streams & avoid duplication for clients in different VLANs. Manageability & Support There are various easy & convenient ways to manage the Stackable Smart Switch. The new Stackable Smart Switches can be managed by the Smart Control Center software which comes free with the switch. With it, you can discover & manage all Netgear Smart Switches from a central location, conduct mass configuration & firmware upgrade. If you have other Netgear business products in your network, you can also use the NMS200, Netgear′s management platform for discovery & configuration of all your Netgear products in the network. For the peace of mind, these Stackable Smart Switches are backed by the NETGEAR Pro Safe Lifetime Hardware Warranty & 1-year free 24x 7 Advanced Technical Support*.