Netgear has this week announced the availability of its new Insight 28-Port Smart Cloud Switches which are now available to purchase price from $330 and were first unveiled during last month’s CES 2018 technology event. The devices are the first 28-port Gigabit Ethernet Switches by Netgear that provide users with anytime anywhere remote cloud management access using the Insight companion mobile application or Insight cloud web portal.
Features of the new Smart Cloud Switches include VLANs including Auto-VoIP & Auto-Video and LLDP support, Port trunking / Link aggregation and IGMP snooping, QoS and priority queuing, port-based rate limiting, STP/RSTP and loop prevention, ACLs, storm control and port mirroring, Advanced per-port PoE controls, scheduling, and timers (PoE models), IPv6 management and support for future-proofing your network, IPv4 and IPv6 static routing for optimising your network outgoing traffic, this features is only available on the 28-port models.
The Insight Managed switches are easy to set up, as you need only to plug the switch into your network and the Internet and discover with the Insight app or using the new Insight cloud web portal – no controller is needed. You can then set up policies across switches without configuring each separately. Through Insight, you see what’s connected on each switch port, port speeds, and can remotely manage PoE power including enabling and disabling PD devices from anywhere, anytime.
Insight Managed 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Cloud Switch with 2 SFP and 2 SFP+ Fiber Ports (GC728X) is now available priced at $330 and Insight Managed 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Cloud Switch with 2 SFP and 2 SFP+ Fiber Ports (GC728XP) is now available for $600
Source: TPU
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