Netgear GS728TP 24-Port ProSAFE Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Switch with (4) Expansion & SFP Slots

The Netgear GS728TP 24-Port ProSAFE Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Switch with (4) Expansion & SFP Slots offers powerful L2 and L2+/Layer 3 Lite features, better PoE functionality, and enhanced performance and usability. They are purposely designed for converged networks where voice, video, data are all carried on a single network platform. This switch is optimized for network efficiency, operational cost savings, and ease of management, offering multiple port configurations both in Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet with PoE options. Also includes Gigabit SFP ports for fiber connectivity. The GS728TP is an ideal solution for businesses looking for the best combination of features, performance, and value.

Features:

• PoE and PoE+ Support available for all configurations
• Auto-Voice VLAN for fast and reliable deployment of VoIP
• Auto-Video VLAN, following the same concept of Auto Voice, help speed up your deployment of IP-based surveillance systems
• Static routing, helps route internal traffic for more efficient use of network resources
• IGMP and MLD snooping, provides advanced multicast filtering
• Solid performance with a non-blocking architecture, 8K MAC address table, 256 VLANs, 480 shared ACL entries, 32static routes, and 1,024 Multicast Groups
• Comprehensive IPv6 management, QoS and ACL, ensuring investment protection and a smooth migration to IPv6-based networking
• PoE+ support on all PoE models, adding the flexibility to add power-hungry devices such as video phone, PTZ camera and 11ac Wireless APs into the network in the future
• The presence of SFP ports provide necessary fiber uplinks, while dedicated SFP ports offer uplink redundancy and failover, improving reliability and availability for network virtualization
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) support for more energy savings in the future when more EEE-compliant end devices come to market
• Advanced QoS with IPv4/IPv6 ingress traffic filtering (ACLs) and prioritization (QoS - Diff Serv)
• Dynamic VLAN assignment for easy user authentication and location-independent access to network
• ACL Wizard for a guided tour to set up your network access control
• Smart Control Center, a powerful tool for multi-switch discovery, deployment, monitoring and firmware upgrades
• PoE Timer for scheduling the on/off time of your PoE powered devices
• Easy to manage via web browser-based management GUI or Smart Control Center for multi-switch deployment
• Standard-based technology, ensuring interoperability with any standard-based devices in the existing network
• Dual firmware images, improving reliability and uptime to your network

PoE-capable on all Ports of the Switch

Support high-density VoIP, Surveillance and WiFi AP deployments, scalable for future growth. Never face the risk of running out of PoE ports.

EEE 802.3at PoE Plus Ports

Flexible to add enough high-end and/or high-powered PoE devices such as video phones, PTZ cameras and 11ac Wireless Access Points in the future via the same existing switch that is used to power normal VoIP phones.

Dedicated SFP Fiber Uplinks

Dedicated SFP ports provide fiber uplinks without sacrificing any downlink Gigabit port. (4) SFP ports provide not only redundant uplinks, but can also build dual redundancy by a trunked uplink with link aggregation and failover, the dual-redundancy, a powerful design for the network virtualization.

Dynamic VLAN Assignment

IP phones and PCs can authenticate on the same port but under different VLAN assignment policies. Users are free to move around and enjoy the same level of network access regardless of their physical location in the network.

Static Routing

A simple way to provide segmentation of the network with internal routing through the switch, reserving the router for external traffic routing only and making the entire network more efficient.

Comprehensive IPv6 Support for Management, ACL and QoS

Build current network with future in mind. Ensure investment protection and a smooth migration to IPv6-based network without switch replacement. Facilitate fast receiver joins and leaves for multicast streams. Save cost and improve network efficiency by ensuring multicast traffic only reaches designated receivers without the need of an extra Multicast router.

Robust Security Features

Build a secured, converged network with all types of traffic by preventing external attacks and blocking malware while allowing secure access for authorized users.

• 802.1x authentication
• DHCP Filtering
• Port-based security by locked MAC
• ACL filtering to permit or deny traffic based on MAC and IP addresses

Auto Voice and Auto Video

Automatic Voice over IP prioritization with Auto-VoIP simplifies most complex multi-vendor IP telephones deployments either based on protocols (SIP, H323 and SCCP) or on OUI bytes (default database and user based OUIs) in the phone source MAC address; providing the best class of service to VoIP streams (both data and signaling) over other ordinary traffic by classifying traffic, and enabling correct egress queue configuration. When deployed IP phones are LLDP-MED compliant, the Voice VLAN will use LLDP-MED to pass on the VLAN ID, 802.1P priority and DSCP values to the IP phones, accelerating convergent deployments.

Comprehensive QoS Features

Advanced controls for optimized network performance and better delivery of mission-critical traffics such as voice and video.

• Port-based or 802.1p-based prioritization
• Layer 3-based (DSCP) prioritization
• Port-based ingress and egress rate limiting

DHCP Snooping

Ensure IP address allocation integrity by allowing only clients with specific IP/MAC addresses to have access to the network.

Dual Firmware Images and Configuration Files

Dual firmware image and dual configuration file for transparent firmware updates / configuration changes with minimum service interruption.

Power-over-Ethernet Timer

Allows IT administrators to increase network security, better utilize network resources and conserve energy by scheduling or remotely controlling on/off of POE ports.

Protected Ports

Ensure no exchange of unicast, broadcast, or multicast traffic between the protected ports on the switch, therefore, improve the security of your converged network where your sensitive phone conversation can stay private and your surveillance video clips can be forwarded to their designated storage device without leakage or alteration.

Traffic Management:

• Auto Negotiation of speed and duplex modes
• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
• Dynamic MAC address management
• IEEE 802.1Q-based VLAN
• Auto Voice VLAN
• Auto Video VLAN (selected models)
• VLAN routing (selected models)
• QoS based on WRR, strict priority, or both
• Port-based and IEEE 801.2p-based QoS
• TCP/UDP-based QoS
• DiffServ
• IPv4 and IPv6-based QoS
• DSCP Support
• Rate Limiting (egress only)
• Link Aggregation and LACP

Security:

• MAC lockdown
• MAC lockdown by number of MACs
• Dynamic VLAN Assignment
• Guest VLAN
• TACACS+
• 3 HTTPS /SSL versions
• TLS session
• Trusted MAC
• IPv4, L4-based Access Control List (ACL)
• IPv6-based ACL (except Fast Ethernet models)

Multicast Efficiency:

• IGMP snooping, v1, v2 and v3
• IGMP Snooping querier
• Blocking of unknown multicast traffic 
• MLD snooping

Spanning Tree, Routing & Stacking:

• IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1w RSTP and MSTP
• Option to enable/disable BPDU flooding when STP is disabled
• Static routing with 32 static routes (Selected models)
• Hosted ARP table size of 1,024 (Selected models)

Reliability, Performance and Troubleshooting:

• Port mirroring both on ingress and egress traffic
• Jumbo frame support
• Broadcast Storm control
• Cable diagnostics
• Loop Detection
• DoS Prevention
• IEEE 802.1ab LLDP
• LLDP-MED
• Dual Image
• SNTP
• Option to enable/disable the flooding of EAPOL when 802.1x is disabled
• Protected ports
• DNS client
• DHCP clients
• DHCP snooping
• Ping and traceroute client
• Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) compliant (Selected models)
• Auto power-down when ports are in idle mode

Switch Management:

• Web browser-based management GUI
• Smart Control Center Software for multi-switch management
• IP Access List
• IPv6 Management
• Configurable Management VLAN
• SNMP v1/v2c and v3
• RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
• Firmware Upgrade through Smart Control Center (TFTP)
• Firmware download (to switch) and upload (to server) through TFTP/HTTP
• Configuration and Image Upload (to PC) through HTTP
• Configuration Download (to Switch) thru TFTP/HTTP and upload (to server)
• Memory & FLASH log
• Syslog (server)
• System password protection

NETGEAR Warranty:

• This product is backed by a NETGEAR ProSAFE^® Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty.
• Lifetime Next Business Day Hardware Replacement. Click here for coverage, availability and terms and conditions.
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