Netgear intros advanced smart switches

New Delhi

May 16, 2008

Netgear announced the expansion of its family of ProSafe Gigabit Smart
Switches with the introduction of three advanced smart switches. Designed to
deliver security and traffic management and availability to growing networks in
small and medium businesses, the ProSafe 24 and 48-port Gigabit smart switches
with static routing (GS724TR and GS748TR) and 24-port Gigabit smart switch with
advanced features (GS724AT).

Netgear's ProSafe Advanced Smart Switches add to the family of ProSafe
Gigabit Smart Switches, which includes the ProSafe 24 and 48-port Gigabit
stackable smart switches (GS724TS and GS748TS), ProSafe 24 and 48-port Gigabit
smart switches with PoE (GS724TP and GS748TP), and ProSafe 8-port Gigabit smart
switch (GS108T). The new ProSafe advanced smart switches, which are covered by
Netgear's ProSafe lifetime warranty, deliver has Access Control Lists (ACL),
802.1x port authentication, rate limiting, IGMP snooping and rapid spanning tree
providing businesses with a scalable, reliable network that is geared for
growth.

Netgear web-based ProSafe Control Center provides management through a
streamlined interface that eases navigation, delivers basic and advanced views
for different user types, and provides index and help functions.

Designed to ease congestion at the core of mid-sized business networks, the
ProSafe 24 and 48-port Gigabit smart switches with static routing (GS724TR and
GS748TR) provide static routing capability. By using static routing to offload
inter-VLAN routing traffic from the core, businesses can deploy the GS724TR and
GS748TR to optimize bandwidth efficiency by freeing up the router for WAN and
security traffic. The GS724TR and GS748TR, which feature 24 or 48 10/100/1000
ports and two or four shared SFP ports, support 32 static routes to enable
inter-VLAN routing.