Today’s growing businesses demand and rely more on their network to carry out mission-critical business activities. Companies are putting more network traffic and applications such as VoIP phones and IP cameras on their Ethernet infrastructure. It needs the network intelligence to separate the voice and video traffic from data,and prioritize them accordingly. However,companies do not necessarily have more money or advanced training to deal with complex managed switches. NETGEAR Smart Managed Plus Switches meet this growing need by providing fundamental network features that will help optimize the performance of business networks. On top of the plug-N-play Gigabit Ethernet connectivity,these switches also offer essential networking features such as VLAN,QoS,IGMP Snooping,Link Aggregation / Port Trunking on models with 16 ports or more,rate limiting and traffic monitoring. NETGEAR Smart Managed Plus Switches are an exceptional value for businesses looking to add intelligence to their network beyond what unmanaged switches can provide. Smart Managed Plus Switch delivers network monitoring, traffic prioritization and VLAN Up to 48 ports (depending on model) deliver up to 2000 Mbps of dedicated, non-blocking bandwidth per port Simple, yet useful network set-up on top of plug-and-play connectivity Gigabit speed with QoS, VLAN and network monitoring VLAN support for traffic segmentation Quality of Service (QoS) for traffic prioritization Auto “denial-of-service” (DoS) prevention Troubleshoot connection issues via cable test Loop prevention and broadcast storm controls IGMP snooping v1, v2 and v3 support for multicast optimization Rate limiting for better bandwidth allocation Port mirroring for network monitoring Jumbo frame support Port Trunking to increase bandwidth and provide redundant links