By Alan Stevens
Introduction and Performance
Unlike the unmanaged Netgear ProSafe XS708E we reviewed at the end of last year, the ProSafe S3300 is a family of much smarter switches with a clutch of additional management features and optional Power over Ethernet (PoE) capabilities. S3300 switches also come with a lot more ports, including four 10GbE uplinks, plus they can be stacked together and managed via a single IP address. So not your average consumer switch, but the kind of hardware suited to small to medium sized businesses looking to keep on top of network bandwidth and usage.
A capable enterprise package
Netgear’s ProSafe S3300 switches are available with either 28 or 52 ports, with or without PoE in each case. The model we looked at had 28 ports (the S3300-28X-PoE+) and at the time of our review it was available online for as little as £410 ex VAT (about $614, or AU$770), working out at a shade over £17 (about $25, or AU$32) for each of the 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports provided.
The other four ports feature much faster 10GbE interfaces, two ready to go with RJ45 (1000Base-TX) connectors while …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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