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NetGear has announced the release of four new ProSAFE 10 GbE switches that will be specifically targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as an upgrade to the first generation of XS708E and XS712T parts.
The new switches will intend to offer support for both copper (10GBase-T) and fibre links, IPv6 management as well as Layer 2+/Layer 3 Lite features.
NetGear claims the switches will also be far more cost-efficient than the company's previous generation of 10 GbE products, amid increased internet speeds and file sizes over the last ten years.
A recent survey ordered by NetGear of more than 550 IT decision-makers in the US, UK and Germany, found that around 33 per cent of businesses with less than 500 employees have already implemented 10 GbE switching to connect to modern 10 GbE servers and NAS.
Of the business that are not yet using 10 GbE, around 75 per cent plan to do so by the end of 2017. The technology is therefore gaining plenty of traction among smaller businesses.
For many offices up and down the country, the previous approach of implementing Gigabit Ethernet or basic teaming may now no longer be enough to secure the speeds needed for success.
The situation has caused many businesses to look closer at moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, which while capable of producing immediate high-performance speeds, is still more expensive on a per-port basis than traditional GbE.
But there are signs that the tide is about to change, with a number of companies, including NetGear, now beginning to offer more moderately priced 10 GbE switches.
The new range of ProSAFE 10 GbE Smart Managed Switches from NetGear are the 8-port XS708T, the 16-port XS716T, the 24-port XS728T and the 44-port XS748T.
With a range of eight to 16 ports, the switches are based on a single-core ARM Cortex-A9 600 MHz processor, although more powerful models, such as the 24- and 44-port models are largely driven? by a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 800 MHz processor.
All of the models support advanced VLAN Features, as well as rackmount form-factors, requiring between 49.5 W to 262.8 watts of power.
Features of the new models include protocol-based VLAN, MAC-based VLAN and 802.1x Guest VLAN; advanced QoS with L2/L3/L4 awareness along with eight priority queues including Q-in-Q; dynamic VLAN assignment; IPv4 and IPv6 routing; IPv6 for management, quality of service and access control lists.
