Netgear has launched four new Gigabit switches with power over Ethernet (PoE+) and SFP ports for fibre uplinks. These switches expand the second-generation family of Smart Managed Pro switches designed for converged networks where voice, video, data and IoT are all carried on a single network platform, with maximum security.

Sharing the same advanced performance and usability features and great PoE functionality, the GS728TPv2, GS728TPPv2, GS752TPv2 and GS752TPP switches are designed to support wireless converged networks and mobility needs of businesses.

These four new Smart Managed Pro switches are also equipp­ed with enhanced security features:

  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) snooping – It monitors and allows only authorised DHCP servers to respond to DHCP requests and pass network data to clients;
  • Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection (DAI) – DAI inspects ARP packets on the local area network (LAN) and uses the information in the DHCP snooping database on a switch to validate ARP packets and protect against ARP spoofing/poisoning/cache poisoning. The combination of these two provide protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, when “attackers” use the IP address of a different valid client to secretly relay or alter the communication between devices in the network.

These switches will also provide the following advanced network tools: full line-rate Gigabit connectivity, traffic priority sett­ing, intuitive configuration of media streaming and audio-visual over IP (AV-over-IP) with multicast capabilities registration, multicast VLAN registration, full IPv6 support and a real power engine.