NETGEAR
GS748TPS Overview:
Product Features:
- The industry's first Gigabit Smart Switch with both PoE and Stacking
- The industry's first to support PoE Plus on Smart switch platform
- True Stacking for flexibility, scalability and easy network management
Powerful Gigabit Smart Switches Supporting both Stacking and PoE
The ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable Smart PoE (Power
over Ethernet) Switches are specifically designed
for growing small and mid-sized businesses (SMB)
with advanced network needs for the support of
multiple "new-world" applications: Voice over IP
(VoIP), a unified wired/wireless network, IP
surveillance, converged video and data network and
much more. It delivers the scalability, flexibility,
reliability, and performance the SMB customers need
in an affordable and easy-to-manage package.
Each ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable Smart PoE 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, videophones and IP cameras
with pan/tilt/zoom capabilities. Coupled with
autovoice VLAN feature, the switch greatly reduces
the complexity of VoIP deployment, and makes it easy
for SMBs to implement and manage a VoIP system on
their network.
The stacking feature on these switches provides
the SMB with uncompromised performance, scalability
and ease of network management. The only Gigabit
Smart Stackable switches in the industry, they can
be stacked through dedicated high-speed stacking
ports (HDMI-based) with an aggregate 20 Gbps
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. Meanwhile, the stack's
redundancy and hot-swappable capability help boost
network resiliency. Under the same Gigabit Stackable
Smart Switch family, the GS724TPS and GS748TPS
switches can be stacked together with GS724TS and
GS748TS.
These switches come with a complete suite of
advanced features such as access control lists
(ACL), 802.1x port authentication, enhanced QoS,
rate limiting and IGMP snooping, among others, to
provide SMB businesses 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.
Scalability and High Availability
Each ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable Smart PoE Switch
comes with 2 dedicated high-speed stacking ports on
the rear of the switch providing 20 Gbps of
bandwidth, allowing you to stack up to six switches
or 288 10/100/1000 Mbps ports – and easily manage
them all with 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, and can be integrated or removed without disrupting the network.
Full-featured, Flexible Power over Ethernet (PoE)
With a total power budget of 192 Watts for the
GS724TPS and 384 Watts for the GS748TPS, customers
can choose to connect up to 48 802.3af IP-based
devices in their network. Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)
helps you optimize the installation and power
management of network devices such as wireless
access points (AP), Voice over IP (VoIP) phones, and
IP-based surveillance cameras, and free your network
deployment from restrictions of power outlet
proximity using a standard Cat 5 cable. In addition,
as the first in the industry, the first 4 ports on
GS724TPS and GS748TPS also support PoE+, the IEEE
802.3at-based technology, providing up to 30 Watts
of power for your high-powered PoE devices such as
videophones, RFID readers, access control systems,
etc. To facilitate power management, the switches
are equipped with auto power budgeting functions,
thus allowing the users flexibility in power
management. Users can allocate the power by
priorities, monitor power consumption and get alerts
when power usage reaches a threshold.
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 Smart Switches
provide an extensive set of QoS features:
- 802.1p-based prioritization
- Layer 3-based (DSCP) prioritization
- Rate-limiting
"Smart" Management Features
Manage all ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable Smart
Switches as though they were one unit from an
easy-to-use Web console that can be used to
configure all features, as well as monitor and
troubleshoot. These switches also have SNMP (v1, 2
and 3) to collect and track data to monitor the
network health, as well as manage devices, and more
easily enforce critical IT controls and policies.
SNMP v2c is most commonly deployed, as it provides
better reporting capabilities than SNMP v1.
Companies interested in more robust security may opt
for SNMP v3, which provides data encryption.
All ProSafe™ Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches
provide world-class reliability with a NETGEAR
Lifetime Warranty and optional ProSupport
Maintenance Packages. These switches are optimized
for ProSafe™ Network Management Software (NMS100)
and work with other SNMP-based management software.
* Optional modules include AGM731F ProSafe™
1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC, AGM732F ProSafe™ 1000BASE-LX SFP GBIC, AGM733 ProSafe™
1000BASE-ZX SFP GBIC
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