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Three Reasons to Get Started Today with the NETGEAR M4100 series
1. Versatile, Protected and Expendable
Power
The M4100 series are the first aordable managed switches
with both redundant and external power supply capabilities
- key for critical applications such as VoIP, IP surveillance
and Wireless access points. PoE devices gobble increasing
amounts of PoE power, yet existing SMB switching solutions
from other vendors don’t scale to full power. Although most
servers in SMB networks have dual power supplies, switches
in SMB networks have not – until now.
Select desktop switches in the M4100 series can be
powered by PoE as a cost-eective solution when there is
no existing electrical wiring or power outlets, as the switch
can draw power directly from the wiring closet. The flexibility
of a PoE switch is also convenient for meeting rooms and
open spaces where visible electrical wiring is unsightly or
impractical. One PoE+ downlink (30W) from the upstream
switch is sucient for the standard operation of the
M4100-D12G and M4100-D12G-POE+ switches. This
also increases resiliency for critical installations: the Power
over Ethernet PD connection on these switches also doubles
as a redundant power supply (RPS) should the switch be
locally powered.
Innovative PoE passthrough technology even lets M4100-
D12G-POE+ power local PoE PD devices - redistributing
PoE budget from the upstream switch. Up to 25W of power
can be available for local PD devices - extending the reach of
PoE deployments beyond the 100-meter or 328-feet bar:
the M4100-D12G-POE+ can function as a “PoE repeater”
for powering remote IP cameras, Wireless access points, etc.
For all other rackmount Power over Ethernet models in the
NETGEAR Intelligent Edge M4100 series, in addition to their
built-in PSU providing more PoE power than competitive
solutions at a similar price point, the NETGEAR Intelligent
Edge M4100 series is the only one allowing for an additional
PoE power “upgrade” via external power supply; immediately
or at later times.
Short story, all rackmount switches in the NETGEAR
M4100 series are either PoE Full Power capable already
or PoE Full Power capable when drawing external power
from the RPS4000. All 24-port and 48-port models can
scale up to 802.3af PoE full power or 802.3at PoE+ full
power simultaneously for all ports. This is real investment
protection.
2. Security and Control
Enhanced security includes network access control and
isolation for improved convergence of voice, video and data:
dynamic 802.1x VLAN assignment mode, including Dynamic
VLAN creation mode and Guest VLAN/Unauthenticated
VLAN are supported for rigorous user and equipment policy
enforcement from a RADIUS server. The RADIUS server
can also be the Network Policy Server (NPS) in Microso®
Windows Server™ 2008 or 2012, when in an Active
Directory domain.
Up to 48 clients (802.1x) per port are supported, including
the authentication of a user’s domain, in order to facilitate
convergent deployments. When IP phones connect PCs on
their bridge, IP phones and PCs authenticate on the same
switch port but under dierent VLAN assignment policies
(Voice VLAN versus data VLAN) - providing administrators
with greater flexibility during deployment and policy
enforcement.
For 802.1x unaware clients, 802.1x MAC Address
Authentication Bypass (MAB) is a great alternative: when
802.1x unaware clients try to connect, the switch sends
their MAC addresses to the authentication server. When
checked, the RADIUS server returns the access policy and
VLAN assignment to the switch for each client.
Enhanced security also includes better network iso
lation with Private VLANs, providing Layer 2 isolation
between ports that share the same broadcast domain. A
VLAN broadcast domain can be partitioned into smaller
point-to-multipoint subdomains across switches in the
same Layer 2 network.
This is useful for IP camera deployments, or in the DMZ
when servers are not supposed to communicate with each
other but need to communicate with a router. Private VLANs
remove the need for more complex port-based VLANs with
respective IP interface/subnets and associated L3 routing.
3. Reliability
Learn how the NETGEAR M4100 series delivers more for
less: all models provide much longer MTBF (average lifetime)
thanks to better/higher quality components and circuitry.
For instance, the desktop 8-port PoE Fast Ethernet M4100-
D10-POE (FSM5210P) is predicted to have an average
mean time between failure of 579,985 hours, or 66 years
at an ambient standard 25°C temperature (77°F). The
rackmount 24-port PoE Gigabit Ethernet M4100-26G-POE
(GSM7226LP) is to predicted to have an average mean
time between failure of 437,199 hours, more than 49 years.
This is nearly double the reliability of the closest competitive
solutions in this price band.
Conclusion
The M4100 series delivers an unbeatable combination of
performance, security and convergence for voice, video and
data networking solutions.
Due to the wide adoption of virtualization, the convergence
of voice, video, and data and the rapid proliferation of
bandwidth-intensive applications, small and mid-sized
businesses, hospitals and schools today have security,
control and reliability needs similar to those of large
enterprises. For approximately the same price as low-end
solutions currently on the market aimed at SMBs, NETGEAR
is oering high-end features that have so far been reserved
only for enterprise-class oerings available at double or
triple the price point.