NETGEAR seems to be on quite a roll lately, and we're not talking just about the company's various offerings in the NAS field. No, NETGEAR's latest product is quite different, since the ProSafe Smart Switch has been designed to deliver higher network performance for businesses, without the cost and complexity of traditional enterprise vendor switches.

According to the manufacturer, the new NETGEAR ProSafe Smart Switch targets businesses that want to easily deploy VOIP, IP surveillance, or video conferencing and efficiently manage all IP devices such as wireless access points, IP phones and IP cameras on the network. It prioritizes voice and video traffic and other real-time applications over less latency-sensitive traffic, ensuring superior reliability and quality and it enables businesses to extend the intelligence of their network to connect high speed servers or power users from any location.

Additionally, the ProSafe GS110TP smart switch includes eight dedicated PoE-capable copper ports plus two additional fiber SFP ports for uplinks designed to prioritize, queue and maximize busy traffic on a business network.

In addition, the smart switch offers useful PoE power management features to help control and monitor power resources. It has a timer that can help turn off the PoE ports during certain times of the day so that business networks can be more secure. In addition, it increases the energy efficiency of the networks as the switch can prioritize the power usage so that specified ports are always guaranteed to get the power first if total power required exceeds the total power budget. And it assigns PoE ports dynamically depending on the actual power need of the individual network devices so no calculation is necessary.

Featuring a fanless design and compact form factor, the ProSafe GS110TP offers quiet operation and is suitable for deployments in any type of environment, especially ones which are sensitive to noise. Plus, the price point is also quite friendly, since we're talking about just around $390.00.  


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