Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch enables businesses to grow with ease

24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ports

Stack up to six units and 144 ports and manage them all from a single IP address

Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches Enable Businesses to Grow with Ease

Growing companies rely on their network to provide the foundation for essential business applications: mission-critical data applications, security, Voice over IP (VoIP), video-conferencing and much more. Businesses that are growing rapidly want full-featured network switches that can accommodate growth, support the full range of network applications and secure the network without the overhead and complexity of fully-managed switches. The ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch family delivers the scalability, flexibility, reliability, and performance growing small and medium-sized businesses need in an affordable and easy-to-manage package.

A first in the industry, each ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch comes with 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Mbps ports with four shared SFP ports that provide high performance Fibre connections for bandwidth-intensive applications like ERP and large file transfers. In addition, two dedicated ports on the rear of the switch provide a 20 Gbps, dual-ring, highly redundant stacking bus that accommodates growth and offers the highest level of resiliency, thus allowing you to stack up to six switches or 288 10/100/1000 Mbps ports – and easily manage them all with a single IP address. Finally, these switches come with a complete suite of advanced features for more robust security, higher quality of service and high availability. This switch is equipped with highly advanced features such as access control lists (ACL), 802.1x port authentication, enhanced QoS, rate limiting and IGMP snooping among others to provide a small and mediumsized business with a network that is geared for growth while providing scalability and reliability.

An intuitive, Web-browser interface provides simple yet comprehensive management, making it a snap to fully realize the potential of the rich feature-set offered by these switches. Why buy fullymanaged stackable network switches designed and priced for the enterprise? NETGEAR ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches are designed for small and medium-sized growing businesses.

Scalability and High Availability

Each ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch comes with 2 dedicated high-speed stacking ports on the rear of the switch providing 20 Gbps of bandwidth. Stack as many as six switches as you grow, and yet maintain high-speed connectivity across the stack with stacking cables. This stacking technology also provides several high-availability features to ensure business continuity:

Resiliency: Due to redundant stacking port connections, there is an automatic fail-over in case any switch in the stack fails, with rapid reconfiguration, thus preventing network downtime.
Hot-swappable: All switches in the stack are hot-swappable, and can be integrated or removed without disrupting the network.

Advanced Security

These switches also provide advanced features that provide more robust security to SMBs. These include:

802.1x for authentication
ACL filtering to permit or deny traffic based on MAC addresses or IP addresses.

Advanced Quality of Service (QoS)

Priority queuing ensures high-priority traffic gets delivered efficiently, even during congestion from high traffic bursts. Companies implementing network telephony or video conferencing, for example, need to be able to prioritize such voice and video traffic and other real-time applications over less latency-sensitive traffic to ensure reliability and quality. The ability to prioritize traffic ensures quality of latency-sensitive services and applications despite increasing traffic loads. The ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches provide an extensive set of QoS features:

802.1p-based prioritization
Layer 3-based (DSCP) prioritization
Rate-limiting
TCP/UDP-based prioritization
“Smart” Management Features

Manage all ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches as though they are one unit from an easy-to-use Web console that can be used to configure all features, as well as monitor and trouble-shoot. These switches also have SNMP (v1, 2 and 3) to collect and track data to monitor the network health, as well as manage devices, and more easily enforce critical IT controls and policies. SNMP v2c is most commonly deployed, as it provides better reporting capabilities than SNMP v1. Companies interested in more robust security may opt for SNMP v3, which provides data encryption.

All ProSafe Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches provide world-class reliability with a NETGEAR Lifetime Warranty and optional ProSupport Maintenance Packages. These switches are optimized for ProSafe Network Management Software (NMS100) and works with other SNMP-based management software.

* Optional modules include AGM731F ProSafe 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC, AGM732F ProSafe 1000BASE-LX SFP GBIC, AGM733 ProSafe 1000BASE-ZX SFP GBIC

Specifications

Network Protocol and Standards Compatibility

IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T
IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX
IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X
IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow control

Interfaces

GS724TS: 24 10/100/1000 Mbps switching ports
GS748TS: 48 10/100/1000 Mbps switching ports
4 Built-in shared SFP Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports for 100/1000 Mbps connectivity
2 HDMI ports on the rear of the unit – used for stacking only
Auto-sensing and auto-negotiating capabilities for all copper ports
Auto Uplink™ on all ports to make the right connection

Administrative Switch Management

IEEE 802.1Q VLAN (128 groups, Static)
Management VLAN
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS)
4 hardware queues
Port-based QoS
IEEE 802.3ad Static or Dynamic Link Aggregation (LACP)
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
SNMP v1, v2c, v3
RFC 1213 MIB II
RFC 1643 Ethernet Interface MIB
RFC 1493 Bridge MIB
RFC 2131 DHCP client
IEEE 802.1x (RADIUS)
RADIUS accounting
Layer 3 (DSCP) Quality of Service (QoS)
TACACS+
Port-based security by locked MAC addresses
TCP/UPD-based priority mapping
IGMP snooping v1, v2, v3
MAC and IP address ACL
Storm control for broadcast, multicast and unknown unicast packets
Port-based ingress/egress rate limiting
SNTP
RMON group 1, 2, 3, 9
Private Enterprise MIB
Port mirroring – many-to-one
IEEE 802.3ab LLDP
LLDP-MED
Protected ports
Cable test
Web-based configuration
Configuration Backup/Restore
Password Access Control
Firmware upgradeable

Performance Specifications

Forwarding modes: Store-and-forward
Bandwidth: 48 Gbps for GS724TS, 96 Gbps for GS748TS
Stacking up to 6 switches or 288 ports per stack
Stacking bandwidth: 20 Gbps
Network latency: Less than 20 microseconds for 64-byte frames in store-and-forward mode for 1000 Mbps to 1000 Mbps transmission
Buffer memory:
GS724TS: 2 Mb
GS748TS: 6 Mb
Address database size: 8,000 media access control (MAC) addresses per system
Addressing: 48-bit MAC address
Mean time between failures (MTBF): 167,300 hours (~19 years) for GS724TS 125,500 hours (~14 years) for GS748TS

LEDs

Unit: Power, fan, stack master, stack ID, PoE max
Per port: Link, speed, activity, stack

Power Supply

Power consumption: 35.1W for GS724TS, 78.36W for GS748TS
100-240V AC/50-60 Hz universal input

Physical Specifications

Dimensions: (h x w x d):
GS724TS: 43.2 x 440 x 205 mm (1.70 x 17.32 x 8 in)
GS748TS: 43.2 x 440 x 300 mm (1.70 x 17.32 x 11.8 in)
Weight:
GS724TS: 2.87 kg (6.33 lb)
GS748TS: 5.16 kg (11.38 lb)

Environmental Specifications

Operating temperature: 32° to 122° F (0° to 50° C)
Storage temperature: -4° to 158° F (-20° to 70° C)
Operating humidity: 90% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
Storage humidity: 95% maximum relative humidity, non-condensing
Operating altitude: 10,000 ft (3,000 m) maximum
Storage altitude: 10,000 ft (3,000 m) maximum

Electromagnetic Compliance

CE mark, commercial
FCC Part 15 Class A
VCCI Class A
EN 55022 (CISPR 22)
EN 55024 (CISPR 24)
C-Tick

Safety

CE mark, commercial
CUL 60950 (Listed)/EN 60950 (Low Voltage Directive)

System Requirements

Category 5 UTP Network cables or better
Network card for each PC
Network software (e.g., Windows®)

Warranty

NETGEAR Lifetime Warranty†

ProSupport™ Service Packs Available

OnCall 24x7, Category 1

PMB0331-100 (US)
PMB0331 (non-US)

XPressHW, Category 1

PRR0331

Package Contents

ProSafe 24 or 48-port Gigabit Smart Stackable Switch (GS724TS or GS748TS)
Rubber footpads
Power cord
One stacking cable
HDMI stacking cable
Rack-mount kit
Resource CD installation guide
Warranty/support information card

Modules

AGM731F ProSafe 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC: Module with LC connectors for 50um or 62.5um multi-mode fiber cable
AGM732F ProSafe 1000BASE-LX SFP GBIC: Module with LC connectors for 9um single-mode fiber cable
AGM733 ProSafe 1000BASE-ZX SFP GBIC: Module with LC connectors for 9um single-mode fiber cable