31 January 2019
The GC752X and GC752XP are Netgear’s first 52-port GbE switches with 2 SFPand 2 SFP+ 10G ports. Additionally, the GC752XP also includes 48-ports of PoE+with a 505W PoE power budget.
Each device can be managed using Netgear’s Insight app or Insight CloudPortal to provide what’s said to be easy setup with anywhere remote/cloud monitoring,management, and advanced security.
Unlike competitive cloud solutions, the vendor claims its Insight managed products arealso fully functional networking and storage solutions in local mode and do not require cloud connectivity to function. It says this allows customers to decide when and how touse the cloud-connected solution, and provides the ability to change modes as required.
Like all of Netgear’s cloud switches, theGC752X and GC752XP are said to support afull suite of advanced L2+/L3 Lite switching features to support both simple networks aswell as ones that are highly complex.The vendor adds that the Insight single pane of glass view displays granular port level management capabilities.
Some ofthe key features here include: VLANs(including auto-VoIP a auto-video)and LLDP support; port trunking/link aggregation and IGMP snooping; QoS and priority queuing, port-based rate limiting,STP/RSTP and loop prevention; andACLs, storm control and port mirroring.
Furthermore, there’s IPv6 management and support for network future-proofing, andIPv4 and IPv6 static routing for optimising outgoing traffic. In addition, PoE models are said to offer “advanced” per-port PoEcontrols, scheduling and timers.