NETGEAR's ProSAFE XS728T is a powerful Smart Managed Switch that comes with either 24 10-Gigabit Copper ports and 4 additional Dedicated SFP+ ports for 10G Fiber links. NETGEAR's 10G Smart Managed Switches are purposely designed as a cost-effective way to provide 10G connections to 10G-capable servers and NAS systems. They can be used at the "center of a small business network" or as an aggregation / access switch in a larger organization including workgroup access, connecting to a 10G NETGEAR ProSAFE M7100/M7300 Fully Managed Switch on one end and extending the 10G connections to the edge.

Comprehensive L2+/Layer 3 Lite Features
XS728T Smart Managed Switches provide comprehensive L2+/Layer 3 Lite features in order to meet users’ current and future needs on virtualization, converged network and mobility. Some of the main features include:

• Advanced VLAN features such as Protocol-based VLAN, MAC-based (Media Access Control) VLAN and 802.1x Guest VLAN


• Advanced QoS (Quality of Service) with L2/L3/L4 awareness and 8 priority queues including Q-in-Q


• Static Routing (including IPv6)


• Private VLAN


• Dynamic VLAN assignment


• IGMP and MLD snooping


• Advanced Security


• IPv6 for management, QoS and ACL