NETGEAR, one of the leading providers of networking solutions, has announced the expansion of its family of ProSafe Gigabit Smart Switches with the introduction of three advanced Smart Switches.

Designed to deliver security and enhanced traffic management and availability to growing networks in small and medium businesses, the ProSafe 24- and 48-Port Gigabit Smart Switches with Static Routing (GS724TR and GS748TR) and 24-Port Gigabit Smart Switch with Advanced Features (GS724AT) are easy-to-manage alternatives to fully-managed switches.

The new ProSafe Advanced Smart Switches, which are covered by NETGEAR's ProSafe Lifetime Warranty, will deliver a higher quality of service (QoS) and high availability through an advanced feature set that includes Access Control Lists (ACL), 802.1x port authentication, rate limiting, IGMP snooping and Rapid Spanning Tree providing businesses with a scalable, reliable network that is geared for growth.

The ProSafe 24- and 48-Port Gigabit Smart Switches with Static Routing (GS724TR and GS748TR) are the first Smart Switches in the industry to provide static routing capability. By using static routing to offload inter-VLAN routing traffic from the core, businesses can deploy the GS724TR and GS748TR to optimise bandwidth efficiency by freeing up the router for WAN and security traffic.

The NETGEAR ProSafe 24-Port Gigabit Smart Switch with Advanced Features (GS724AT) aims to provide small and mid-sized companies with management capabilities at an affordable price. This switch also provides advanced features such as Access Control Lists (ACL) for increased security, Layer 3 based QoS for enhanced traffic prioritization, Auto Voice VLAN for 'Plug and Play' deployment of VoIP, and Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) for increased availability.

"Growing small and medium businesses are continually faced with the challenge of maintaining scalable, reliable and affordable network infrastructures to support an increasing array of advanced applications such as ERP systems, wireless and converged communications systems," says Atul Jain, country manager, India and SAARC, NETGEAR. "The addition of the Advanced Smart Switch products to our popular ProSafe Gigabit Smart Switch family will provide small and mid-sized businesses with advanced, affordable and easy-to-manage alternatives to fully-managed switches", he adds.