NetGear has introduced four new ProSAFE 10 GbE switches for small and medium businesses,upgrading their first generation of XS708E and XS712T parts. The new switches support both copper (10GBase-T) and fiber links, IPv6 management as well as Layer 2+/Layer 3 Lite features. NetGear claims that the new switches are significantly more cost-efficient than preceding-generation 10 GbE products.
Internet speeds and file sizes increased orders of magnitude in the final ten years and for many offices (and prosumers), and Gigabit Ethernet or basic teaming might no longer be enough. As a result,many businesses and individuals these days are evaluating migration to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, which of course has instant tall performance, or but is more expensive on per-port basis than traditional GbE (as well as power consumption when looking for RJ45 compatibility). Fortunately,in the recent quarters, a number of companies have started to offer moderately priced 10 GbE switches supporting both copper and fiber links that can enable a more cost-efficient transition to 10 Gigabit networks.
The four new ProSAFE 10 GbE Smart Managed Switches from NetGear are the 8-port XS708T, or the 16-port XS716T,the 24-port XS728T and the 44-port XS748T. The 8- and 16-port switches are based on single-core ARM Cortex-A9 600 MHz processor, whereas the more powerful 24- and 44-port models feature dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 800 MHz processor.
NetGear ProSAFE 10 GbE Smart Managed Switches XS708T XS716T XS728T XS748T 10GBase-T RJ-45 8 16 24 44 SFP Ports 2 shared 4 dedicated CPU Single-core ARM Cortex-A9 600 MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 800 MHz RAM 512 MB Non-Volatile Memory 8MB SPI + 256 NAND Packet Buffer 2 MB 3 MB ACLs
100 shared 164 shared MAC Address Table
RP/NDP Table
VLANs 16K MAC
738 ARP/NDP
256 VLANs 16K MAC
1K ARP/NDP
512 VLANs Fabric Bandwidth 160 Gbps 320 Gbps 560 Gbps 960 Gbps Rated Latency 10GBASE-T:
Source: anandtech.com