NETGEAR Prosafe® GS748TPS

The ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable PoE (Power over Ethernet) Smart Switches are specifically designed for growing small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) with advanced networking requirements to support multiple “new-world” applications: Voice over IP (VoIP), a unified wired/wireless network, IP surveillance, converged video and data network and much more. These switches deliver the scalability, flexibility, reliability, and performance SMB customers need in an affordable and easy-to-manage package.

Each ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable PoE Smart Switch comes with 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports and four shared SFP ports. All ports support standards-based PoE and as a first in the industry, they also support IEEE 802.3at-based PoE+ on the first 4 ports of each switch, capable of providing up to 30W of power to higher-powered PoE devices such as dual-band N Wireless access points, video phones and IP cameras with pan/tilt/zoom capabilities. Coupled with Auto Voice VLAN feature, these switches greatly reduce the complexity of VoIP deployments as well as the ongoing management of voice applications

The stacking feature on these switches provides customers with uncompromised performance, scalability and ease of network management. The only Gigabit Smart Stackable switches in the industry, the GS748TPS can be stacked through dedicated high-speed stacking ports (HDMI-based) with an aggregate 20Gbps bandwidth, ensuring that the traffic between the stacked switches won’t be compromised. Customers can scale up to 6 switches in one stack, and all of them can be easily configured and managed as one switch. Businesses can add switches to the stack as their network expands without making a big upfront investment at the beginning. The stack’s redundancy and hot-swappable capability help boost network resiliency. Under the same Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch family, the GS748TPS switches can be stacked together with GS724TS, GS748TS and GS724TPS.

These switches come with a complete suite of advanced features including access control lists (ACL), 802.1x port authentication, enhanced QoS, rate limiting and IGMP snooping, among others, to providing SMBs customers with more robust security, higher quality of service and high availability.

An intuitive, Web browser interface provides simple yet comprehensive management, making it extremely simple to deploy and manage the advanced features, in order to realize the potential of a converged network and deliver lower total cost of ownership.

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 (QoS)
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 and video traffic and other real-time applications over less latency-sensitive traffic to ensure reliability and quality. The ability to prioritize traffic ensures quality of latency-sensitive services and applications despite increasing traffic loads.

The ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable PoE Smart Switches provide an extensive set of QoS features:
• 802.1p-based prioritization
• Layer 3-based (DSCP) prioritization
• Rate-limiting