Sunday, November 16, 2003

NETGEAR Offers Layer 3 Managed Switch with POE

NETGEAR introduced a Layer 3 Managed Switch featuring 24 10/100 Mbps ports, two copper gigabit ports and Power-Over-Ethernet functionality for a list price of $1,750. The Layer 3 dynamic routing capabilities could be used by small and medium businesses to off-load expensive routers and increase performance across network subnets. The switch delivers IPv4 routing at wire speed with up to 512 routes per unit, VRRP (IP redundancy), ICMP, RIP I and RIP II, OSPF2, DHCP/BOOTP relay, port trunking, broadcast storm protection, extensive VLAN support, IGMP snooping, Rapid Spanning Tree, link aggregation, DiffServ, access control lists, and bandwidth provisioning. The Power-Over-Ethernet functionality supports VoIP telephones, security cameras and PoE-enabled business-class wireless access points.
http://www.netgear.com