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

Prioritize Voice/Video
With the ability to set up and configure QoS, these G gabit Plus Switches can detect different types of network traffic and assign the desired priority to latency-sensitive traffic, suc as voice and video. This helps improve the delivery quality of related applications such as VoIP, multimedia broadcasting, and vid o conferencing.

Build Multiple Network Groups
These Gigabit 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 op n to all. This feature improves overall network performance, adds security to network traffic, and makes more efficient use of netw rk resources.

Troubleshoot Cable Problems
All Gigabit Plus Switches come with a cable diagnostic featu e that enables users to easily find out the health status of their network cables. If there are any problems, this feature helps qu ckly 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 t e IGMP conversation between hosts and routers, the Gigabit Plus switch can maintain a map as to which links need which IP multicast streams. The Gigabit Plus switch 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 perf rmance at Layer 2 and is especially useful for bandwidth-intensive IP multicast applications such as IPTV.