Industry’s First SMB Switch with 10-Gigabit Connectivity Netgear is leading the networking industry with the market’s first cost-efficient 10Gigabit Switch for the Small and Medium Businesses. The XS708E provides 8 10G connectivity ports at a very affordable price comparing to the Enterprise switches in the marketplace. With the enormous growths of network traffic and network storage in recent years, 10G becomes a nature upgrade for many businesses in order to keep up with their network performance and business efficiency. This impacts not only the large enterprises, but for Small and medium businesses as well since many SMBs are operating with big data even though the company size is small. Netgear recognizes the needs of a growing network for our SMB customers and is coming up with the cost-efficient 10G solution. The XS708E consists of 8 10G copper ports and one combo 10G Fiber SFP+ port. With 10GBased-T, customers can use the standard RJ45 Ethernet jack and the Cat6 or 7 copper cable that are already been widely used in their current network. The network speed can be improved 10x into 10Gigabit from Gigabit with minimum network changes and upgrades. The XS708E belongs to NETGEAR’s ProSafe Plus Switch Product family. So, on top of the plug-N-play 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, it also offers some fundamental network features that will help optimize the performance of business networks such as VLAN, QoS, IGMP Snooping, Port trunking and rate limiting, traffic monitoring. ProSafe Plus Switches are an upgrade from the plug-and-play Unmanaged Switch, delivering great value for empowering your network, delivering great value to the end user. The XS708E 10G ProSafe Plus Switch from Netgear is ideal for SMBs considering simple and affordable 10GE connectivity into their 10G-capable servers and storage devices. - 8 ports deliver up to 10GG bps of dedicated, non-blocking bandwidth per port - Simple, yet useful network set-up on top of plug-and-play connectivity - VLAN support for traffic segmentation - Quality of Service (QoS) for traffic prioritization - Auto “denial-of-service” (DoS) prevention - Troubleshoot connection issues via cable test - Loop prevention and broadcast storm controls - IGMP snooping for multicast optimization - Rate limiting for better bandwidth allocation - Port Trunking - Port mirroring for network monitoring - Jumbo frame support