NETGEAR GC728X
Insight Managed 28-port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Cloud Switch with 2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber ports

Overview:

Experience the most versatile and easy to manage switches in the market

As a leading provider of network equipment for SMBs, NETGEAR understands the importance of reliable and high performance networks. With the growth of virtualization, cloud-based services and applications like VoIP, video streaming and IP surveillance, SMB networks need to extend beyond simple reliability to simpler management and remote monitoring to ensure your network is “always up”. NETGEAR also understands that small business owners shouldn’t have to understand networking and IT; they need a network that’s easy-to-setup and is reliable, so they can focus on their business, not their network. To that end, NETGEAR is introducing our most versatile and easy-to-manage switches ever, NETGEAR Insight Managed Smart Cloud switches.

The Insight Managed Smart Cloud Gigabit Ethernet/10G SFP+ Switches are the first switches from NETGEAR with anywhere configuration and management. Using either the NETGEAR Insight app on your mobile device or tablet, or the Insight Cloud Portal from your PC, Mac, or tablet, you can quickly discover, setup, monitor and manage your Smart Cloud Switches from anywhere in the world! With their remote cloud manageability, sleek design, and combination of Gigabit copper, Gigabit SFP fiber, and 10G SFP+ fiber ports, Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches are the most versatile switches in the market for any environment. Whether at home, out of the office or on a business trip, you can still manage and monitor your network as if you were right there.

Innovative features for the most versatile and easy-to-manage switches in the market

Your network. Anytime. Anywhere.
The NETGEAR Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches fundamentally change the way you think of networks and IT. Using the NETGEAR Insight mobile app or the Insight Cloud Portal with Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches and Wireless Access Points provides:

• Instant in-app device discovery & set-up
• Local or remote configuration and monitoring from your mobile device, PC, Mac or tablet
• Centralized network configuration polices with auto-join and configure (zero-touch provisioning)
• Multi-site/multi-network remote management and monitoring with single pane-of-glass view
• Multi-switch/multi-port concurrent configuration using the Port Config Wizard

Remote monitoring and management from the palm of your hand!
With the NETGEAR Insight mobile app, you can setup, manage, and monitor your networks from anywhere, anytime, from the palm of your hand on your phone or tablet! Or, for a larger screen experience, you can use the Insight Cloud Portal from your PC, Mac, or tablet web browser.

Network-centric configuration and management
NETGEAR Insight Managed Switches and Wireless Access Points using the NETGEAR Insight app or Insight Cloud Portal allow for cross-device automated configuration of VLANs, QoS, ACLs, and LAGs. Auto-join and configure (zero-touch privisioning) allows for additional devices added and provisioned seamlessly

Fully-integrated cloud-manageable devices
NETGEAR Insight Managed switches are fullyintegrated, cloud-manageable, plug-and-play devices. Just connect to your network and without any setup, they’re passing traffic. For configuration setup, management, and monitoring, you can use the Insight mobile app on your mobile device or the Insight Cloud Portal from your PC, Mac, or tablet web browser. No additional cloud controller, appliance, network manager, or on-premise cloud server necessary.

Clean, sleek designs
Insight Managed switches have a modern, clean design, with at-a-glance cloud, power, fan, and PoE max1 LEDs for quick status monitoring. On-port LEDs for link/activity and PoE power1 allow for port-specific connectivity monitoring.

Connectivity options for every environment
All models have 24 copper Gigabit Ethernet ports, two 1G SFP fiber ports, and two 10G SFP+ fiber ports for maximum connectivity. On PoE+ models, all 24 Gigabit Ethernet copper ports support PoE or PoE+, with a PoE power budget of 390W. Dedicated Gigabit SFP and 10G SFP+ ports provide fiber uplinks for server interconnects or across long distances, or can be used to build dual redundancy by a trunked uplink with link aggregation and failover.

Build a future-proof network with NETGEAR Insight Managed Switches

• Extensive L2+/L3 Lite switching features including static routing
• Comprehensive IPv6 management, QoS and ACL support, ensuring investment protection and a smooth migration to IPv6-based networking
• Advanced QoS with IPv4/IPv6 ingress traffic filtering (ACLs) and prioritization (QoS)
• Dynamic VLAN assignment for easy user authentication and location-independent access to network
• 390W PoE+ power budget¹, with the flexibility to serve power-hungry devices such as 11ac Wireless APs, VoIP voice and video phones, security/ surveillance cameras including PTZ, and other IoT devices
• Advanced per-port PoE controls¹ (set specific power budget per port in addition to automatic class-defined) and PoE scheduling

NETGEAR quality and reliability

• Industry-leading 5-year Limited Hardware Warranty*
• Minimal down-time with Next-Business-Day Replacement Warranty
• Get deployment assistance with 90-days Free Advanced Technical Support**

Why Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches?

NETGEAR is revolutionizing unified, centralized network management with it’s new line of Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches and Wireless Access Points, all managed from the palm of your hand, anytime, anywhere, on your phone or tablet using the NETGEAR Insight mobile app. Or, for a larger screen experience, from your PC, Mac, or tablet web browser using the Insight Cloud Portal.

• Ideal for SMBs, offices, retail stores, education, healthcare, owner-operated businesses, etc.
• IT expert or no networking experience at all: Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches let you focus on your business, not maintaining your network.
• Know immediately if and when your network is not running perfectly; not after you’ve already lost business or suffered significant down-time.
• Advanced L2+/L3 Lite network features such as IPv4/IPv6 management, VLANs, DiffServ QoS, LACP Link Aggregation, Spanning Tree, Static Routing, advanced per-port PoE controls and PoE scheduling will satisfy even the most advanced small business networks.
• Fundamentally change and simplify network usability for easier and smoother deployment of voice, video, and WLAN on the same converged platform.
• Industry-leading 5-year warranty on switches, 5-year Next-Business-Day (NBD) replacement, and 90-days free technical support** for peace-of-mind.

Within small and medium-sized organizations, there is growing adoption of PoE devices such as VoIP phones, IP security cameras, wireless access points, proximity sensors, LED lighting, door locks, and other IoT devices that require network switches capable of supporting dense PoE installations. Wireless access points and pan-tilt-zoom HD cameras using Wave 2 802.11ac Wi-Fi also require PoE+ power (802.3at), increasing the power demands on PoE switches. With a generous power budget of 390W, the GC728XP is designed to meet the current and future needs of wireless converged networks.

¹ On PoE models only (GC728XP)
* This product comes with a limited warranty that is valid only if purchased from a NETGEAR authorised reseller, and modifications to product may void the warranty; covers hardware, fans, and internal power supplies - not software or external power supplies; see http://www.netgear.com/about/warranty/ for details. Lifetime technical support includes basic phone support for 90 days from purchase date and lifetime online chat support when purchased from a NETGEAR authorised reseller.
** The NETGEAR OnCall 24x7 contract provides unlimited phone and email technical support for your networking product. For ProSAFE products purchased prior to 06/2014, also includes next business-day hardware replacement.