NETGEAR has enhanced its range of Smart Switch family with NETGEAR's ProSafe Smart Switch GS748T for small and growing companies “bet the business” on their network, depending on it as the essential nerve center for applications. This switch maximizes bandwidth and density for great value and capability. With 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, each capable of powering 2000 Mbps of data throughput in full-duplex mode, plus four optional fiber ports, it provides a 96 Gbps backbone and connects servers or power users, delivering large amounts of multimedia, image, and video information in no time at all.

Atul Jain, Country Manager, Netgear India and SAARC, says, “The SMB business wants a technology which is proven and rock solid along with it, it should be hassle free in terms of manageability. They do not want to spend much on the manpower to maintain these boxes unlike the large enterprises. Therefore, NETGEAR's ProSafe Smart Switch GS748T is a very good option for them.”

With high density48 10/100/1000 ports deliver full-speed packet forwarding in a 1U size to migrate your network to future-proof functionality. It also enables key management features for the value price of an unmanaged switch which includes performance monitoring, port configuration, VLAN for traffic control, port trunking for increased bandwidth, and Class of Service (CoS) for traffic prioritization. It is simple to set up and easy to use for effortless network monitoring and troubleshooting.

The Network Protocol and Standard compatibility of the product are:

• IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow control

The flow control is half-duplex back-pressure and Full-duplex IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control. The power consumption of the product is 15W maximum and needs the power supply of 100-240VAC/50-60Hz universal input. The dimension of GS748T is (H x W x D): 1.7 x 17.3 x 10.25 in. (43 x 440 x 260 mm) and weighs only 4.0 kg. It works in the operational temperature of 32° to 104° F (0° to 40° C), operational humidity of 90% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing.This switch comes with Buffer memory of 1,632 KB embedded memory per unit and can handle 16,000 media access control (MAC) addresses per system. And the mean time between failure is 69,930 hours (~8 years). The system requirements for GS748T are Cat 5 network cables, Network card for each PC and Network software (e.g., Window).

Atul Jain adds, “Our policy of providing lifetime warranty actually justifies our confidence of its sustained performance”