8 Port Netgear GS108E-300AUS ProSafe Gigabit Network Switch

Control and Configure Beyond Plug-N-Play Connectivity

Today’s growing businesses demand and rely more on their network to carry out mission-critical business activities. Companies are putting more network traffic and applications such as VoIP phones and IP cameras on their Ethernet infrastructure. It needs the network intelligence to separate the voice and video traffic from data, and prioritize them accordingly. However, companies do not necessarily have more money or advanced training to deal with complex managed switches. NETGEAR ProSAFE^® Web Managed (Plus) Switches meet this growing need by providing fundamental network features that will help optimize the performance of business networks. On top of the plug-N-play Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, these switches also offer essential networking features such as VLAN, QoS, IGMP Snooping, Link Aggregation (LAG) on models with 16 ports or more, rate limiting and traffic monitoring. NETGEAR ProSAFE^® Web Managed (Plus) Switches are an exceptional value for businesses looking to add intelligence to their network beyond what unmanaged switches can provide.

Prioritize Voice/Video

With the ability to set up and configure QoS, these Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) Switches can detect different types of network traffic and assign the desired priority to latency-sensitive traffic, such as voice and video. This helps improve the delivery quality of related applications such as VoIP, multimedia broadcasting, and video conferencing.

Build Multiple Network Groups

These Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) Switches can help divide big networks into smaller more manageable groups and have resources dedicated for one or several groups rather than making the same resources open to all. This feature improves overall network performance, adds security to network traffic, and makes more efficient use of network resources.

Troubleshoot Cable Problems

All Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) Switches come with a cable diagnostic feature that enables users to easily find out the health status of their network cables. If there are any problems, this feature helps quickly locate the point where the cabling fails; allowing connectivity issues to be fixed much faster, potentially saving technicians hours of troubleshooting.

IGMP Snooping for Optimized Multimedia Traffic Delivery

By listening in on the IGMP conversation between hosts and routers, the Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) switch can maintain a map as to which links need which IP multicast streams. The Gigabit Web Managed (Plus) therefore will be able to forward multicast traffic only to the links that have asked for them and cut multicast traffic from links that do not contain a multicast listener. Essentially, IGMP snooping helps optimize multicast performance at Layer 2 and is especially useful for bandwidth-intensive IP multicast applications such as IPTV.

Traffic Management

• Auto Negotiation of speed and duplex modes
• 802.3x Flow Control
• DHCP Client
• Dynamic MAC address management
• IEEE 802.1Q-based or port-based VLAN
• QoS based on WRR, strict priority, or both
• Port-based and IEEE 802.1p-based QoS
• QoS based on ToS (Type-of-Service)
• DSCP Support (GS105E and GS105PE only)
• Rate Limiting
• Link Aggregation (LAG) (available on models with 16 ports or more)

Multicast Efficiency

• IGMP snooping, v1, v2 and v3
• IGMP Snooping querier (16 and 24 port models only)
• Blocking of unknown multicast traffic
• Act as static multicast router port

Reliability, Performance and Troubleshooting

• Port mirroring both on ingress and egress traffic
• Jumbo frame support
• Broadcast Storm control
• Cable diagnostics
• Loop Detection
• DoS Prevention
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) compliant (Selected models)
• Power savings with short cable detection and auto power-down when ports are in idle mode

Switch Management

• Advanced configuration and management using web browser-based GUI
• Manage or deploy multiple switches using ProSAFE Plus Utility (requires Windows PC)
• Firmware upgrade thru ProSAFE Plus Utility (TFTP)
• Configuration upload (to Server)
• System password protection