Buy Netgear ProSafe 48-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (GS748TNA)Netgear ProSafe 48-Port Gigabit Smart Switch (GS748TNA) Product Description:
- 48 10/100/1000 Mbps gigabit ports
- Non-blocking Bandwidth
- Easy, browser-based switch management
Product Description
Joining NETGEAR's family of Smart Switches with simple switch management at no extra cost, this 1U high, 48-port Gigabit switch maximizes bandwidth and density for great value and capability. With 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, each capable of powering 2000 Mbps of data throughput in full-duplex mode, plus four optional fiber ports, it provides a 96 Gbps backbone and connects servers or power users, delivering large amounts of multimedia, image, and video information in no time at all. Standards-based, it is ideal for combining 10, 100, and 1000 Mbps devices, as it delivers automatic speed and full/half-duplex sensing plus Auto Uplinkon every port. Four hot-swappable small form-factor pluggable (SFP)1 GBIC slots provide optional fiber connectivity for greater distance. An intuitive, Web-browser interface offers simple switch management, making it a snap to monitor switch performance, configure ports, even setup trunks, VLANs, and prioritization.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Netgear GS748T switch - points to watch....
By Herr_Blucher
One thing to watch out for on these switches - Amazon seems to have stock of several older versions (firmware). Make sure to download and update to 3.03 (current) or you'll be wondering if you even got the right switch.Be sure, also, to set the IP address on these switches *before* you plug in workstations/printers/etc.. I was in too much of a hurry and was tearing my hair out wondering why clients were randomly dropping.If I had bothered to read the docs (again, too much attention paid to getting it done quick) I would have seen that the switches had the same IP address and the problems I was encountering had a logical reason - wouldn't have had to diagnose cabling/termination/etc. wasting time.For what it's worth, the VLAN/trunking features are nice additions and I typically don't have clients where this is useful, I've found it useful at my most recent job where I have about a half dozen IP cameras. VLANing those keeps the available throughput to my client's network segmented and not stomped on. We'll see if the VLAN actually works well in the following weeks/days. I'm a bit suspicious that a switched priced at this level would actually work as advertised with the VLAN feature. Hopefully I'll be impressed.But anyhow, so far so good. There is a noted improvement in throughput over the old network (100 Full duplex) with the new gigabit cabling and switches.The switches were easy to set up and didn't have features that were confusing to set up. Simple. No IOS to program, all web based and stable.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Poorest quality in a switch
By Philip S Hempel
We purchased 7 of these switches. I have in the pass been very satisfied with Netgear products. So these problems has come to me as surprise.I want to point out that these switches are Version 4 and in the past I have never used anything newer than version 3.Within 2 weeks of configuring and putting these switches in with another 6 other switches from other venders we began to see problems. The newest firmware 5.4.x caused constant reboots. After two months of tech support going back and forth we were told to downgrade the firmware to 5.0.xNow we have constant issues with network ports becoming unusable over the time the longer the switches stay up. VLANs will stop being passed to some ports. The IP stack fails and you cannot manage the systems unless you reboot the switches.We have had RMA requests that have gone unheeded.At this point we have are going to ship all of these back to Amazon at a loss.I believe that there has been some changes in who Netgear has chosen to use for developing there systems for the SOHO switches. This is why the difference in reviews from 2008 to 2012. At that time (2008) I would have said great things about this switch model, being I have placed a number of them in production in many other companies and have always been very happy.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.Surprising power
By D. Jones
I needed a 48 port gig switch to accompany a already growing network. This fit the price and feature point nicely. I have tied this in with a couple of Cisco 3750 metros and it hums nicely. Vlans, trunks and all features work well. GUI is a bit static - but easy to navigate.Best thing is the switch just hums (and loud) and passes the packets like it should. I recommend this highly for anyone looking to upgrade from a 10/100 install to add a bit faster gig across the board.Sure its not going to give you line rate gig - but hey its cheap and it keeps the packets flowing. I recommend this highly for both tech installs and those of you that want speed, port aggregation and features enhancements above and beyond the basics.
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