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Insight Managed Gigabit Ethernet/10G SFP+ Smart Cloud Switches Data Sheet

GC728X, GC728XP, GC752X, GC752XP

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 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 silent or whisper-quiet operation, they are the most versatile switches in the market for any environment. Whether at home, out of the oce 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 app with Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switches and Wireless Access Points provides:

• Instant in-app discovery & set-up

• Local or remote conguration and monitoring from your mobile device, PC, Mac or tablet

• Centralized network conguration polices with auto-join and congure (zero-touch provisioning)

• Multi-site/remote network management and monitoring with single pane-of-glass view

• Multi-switch/multi-port concurrent conguration using the Port Cong Wizard

Remote monitoring and management from the palm of your hand!

With the NETGEAR Insight 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 allow for cross-device automated conguration of VLANs, QoS, ACLs, and LAGs. Auto-join and congure (zero-touch privisioning) allows for additional devices added seamlessly.

Fully-integrated cloud-manageable devices

NETGEAR Insight Managed switches are fully-integrated, cloud-manageable, plug-andplay devices. Just connect to your network and without any setup, they’re passing trac. For conguration 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 silent (or whisper-quiet) 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-specic connectivity monitoring.

Connectivity options for every environment

GC728X and GC728XP have 24 copper Gigabit Ethernet ports; GC752X and GC752XP have 48 copper Gigabit Ethernet ports. All models also have two dedicated 1G SFP ber ports, and two dedicated 10G SFP+ ber ports for maximum connectivity. On PoE+ models (GC728XP and GC752XP), all Gigabit Ethernet copper ports suppor t PoE or PoE+, with a PoE power budget of 390W (GC728XP) and 505W (GC752XP). Dedicated Gigabit SFP and 10G SFP+ ports provide ber 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 IPv6based networking

• Advanced QoS with IPv4/IPv6 ingress trac ltering (ACLs) and prioritization (QoS)

• Dynamic VLAN assignment for easy user authentication and location-independent access to network

• Strong PoE+ power budgets of 390W (GC728XP) and 505W (GC752XP) have the exibility 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 specic power budget per port in addition to automatic class-dened) and PoE scheduling

NETGEAR quality and reliability

• Industry-leading 5-year Limited Hardware Warranty*

• Minimal down-time with Next-BusinessDay Replacement Warranty

• Get deployment assistance with 90-days Free Advanced Technical Support**

On PoE models only (GC728XP, GC752XP)

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Insight Managed Gigabit Ethernet/10G SFP+ Smart Cloud Switches Data Sheet

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Hardware at a Glance

FRONT REAR SIDE

Model Name

Form-Factor

LEDs

(System)

Gigabit Copper

(RJ-45) Ports

1G SFP Fiber

Ports

10G SFP+ Fiber

Ports

PoE/PoE+ Ports

(Budget)

LEDs

(Per Port)

Power Supply

Fans

GC728X

GC728XP

GC752X

GC752XP

Rackmount,

Desktop

Rackmount,

Desktop

Rackmount,

Desktop

Rackmount,

Desktop

Cloud, Power,

Fan

Cloud, Power, PoE Max, Fan

Cloud, Power,

Fan

Cloud, Power, PoE Max, Fan

24 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated) N/A

24 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated)

48 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated) N/A

48 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated)

GC728X: 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports

• 24 x 1000BASE-T Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds

• 2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports

• 2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds

• Max 28dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient

24 PoE+

(390W)

48 PoE+

(505W)

Speed/Link/

Activity

Speed/Link/ Activity, PoE

Speed/Link/

Activity

Speed/Link/ Activity, PoE

1 internal

PSU, xed

1 internal

PSU, xed

1 internal

PSU, xed

1 internal

PSU, xed

1 internal fan, xed

2 internal

fans, xed

1 internal fan, xed

3 internal

fans, xed

GC728XP: 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports

• 24 x 1000BASE-T PoE+ Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds

• 2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports

• 2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds

• 390W PoE budget (max 39dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient)

GC752X: 52-Port Gigabit Ethernet Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports

• 48 x 1000BASE-T Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds

• 2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports

• 2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds

• Max 25dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient

GC752XP: 52-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Insight Managed Smart Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports

• 48 x 1000BASE-T PoE+ Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds

• 2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports

• 2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds

• 505W PoE budget (max 30dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient)

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Soware at a Glance

MANAGEMENT LAYER 2+ / LAYER 3 LITE FEATURES

Device

Management

NETGEAR Insight mobile app or Insight Cloud Portal for local/remote/anywhere management from your mobile device, PC, Mac, or tablet

Local web browser-based management GUI, SNMP, RMON

IPv4 & IPv6 management

Network Management

Centralized network conﬁguration (policies)

Auto-join & conﬁgure (zero-touch provisioning)

Multi-site, multi-network single pane-of-glass view

Multi-switch/multi-port concurrent conﬁguration

Performance at a Glance

Features

IPv4/IPv6

ACL and

QoS

L2, L3, L4

Ingress

IPv4/IPv6

Multicast

Filtering

IGMP and

MLD

Snooping

VLANs

Static,

Dynamic,

Voice,

Video, MAC,

Protocol-

based, and

Private

Auto-VoIP,

Auto-Video

Yes LLDP-MED,

Convergence

RADIUS,

802.1X

Link Aggregation/ Port Trunking

LACP and

Manual Static

LAGs

(up to 24 LAGs

with max 8

members)

IPv4 &

IPv6

Static

Routing

Yes

Model Name

GC728X 400 MHz Cortex-

GC728XP

GC752X 140Gbps

GC752XP

CPU & Memory

A9 Single Core,

512MB RAM

8MB SPI + 256

NAND FLASH

Fabric (Full-

duplex)

92Gbps

line-rate

Latency

(64-byte Packet

@ Max Connection

Speed)

1G Copper: 3.200 μs

1G SFP: 1.720 μs

10G SFP+: 1.510 μs

Ordering Information

MODEL NAME AMERICAS EUROPE

GC728X

GC728XP

GC752X

GC752XP

GC728X-100NAS GC728X-100EUS GC728X-100AJS

GC728XP-100NAS GC728XP-100EUS GC728XP-100AJS

GC752X-100NAS GC752X-100EUS GC752X-100AJS

GC752XP-100NAS GC752XP-100EUS GC752XP-100AJS

Packet

Buer

1.5 MB 68.5 Mfps

2.0 MB 104.2 Mfps

Packet

Forwarding

Rate

(64-byte)

ASIA PACIFIC &

AUSTRALIA

ACLs

100

(shared)

MAC Address

Table

ARP/NDP Table

VLANs

16K MAC

(dynamic)

384 ARP/ 256 NDP

256 VLANs

Static

Routes

(IPv4 &

IPv6)

IPv4: 32

IPv6: 31

Priority Queues

8 (WRR) 512

Multicast

IGMP

Groups

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Features and Beneﬁts

Hardware Features Beneﬁts

Fully-integrated Cloud-manageable Devices

1000BASE-T Copper Ethernet PoE+ (802.3at) connections (GC728XP/GC752XP)

1000BASE-X SFP ports Two dedicated Gigabit SFP ports provide ﬁber uplinks without sacriﬁcing any downlink copper Gigabit

10GBASE-X SFP+ ports Two dedicated 10-Gigabit SFP+ ﬁber ports provide ﬂexibility to uplink to 10G-capable core or aggregation

Cloud, Power, PoE (GC728XP/ GC752XP only), and Fan LEDs

USB Port Quickly and conveniently upgrade or restore ﬁrmware, load or backup conﬁguration ﬁles, or download

Micro-USB Debug Port Only for use when directed by customer support for troubleshooting.

Low Acoustics Temperature-based fan-speed control minimizes system acoustic noise in any environment as low as 25 dB

Energy Ecient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az)

Rackmount or Desktop Flexible deployment in standard 19” rack using the included rackmount kit or on desktop using included rubber feet.

Kensington Lock Slot Prevent the, removal, or tampering when used for desktop deployment.

Soware Features Beneﬁts

Remote setup, management, and monitoring anywhere, anytime, from your mobile device, PC, Mac, or tablet

Auto-join and Conﬁgure (Zero-Touch Provisioning)

Require no additional hardware (cloud keys, network portals, local servers, VPN or proxy appliances etc) to directly connect to the cloud and allow remote management. No additional hardware, no soware or server to setup; nothing. Just connect and go.

Connect multiple power demanding devices to your network with a single wire for power and connectivity. Support high-density VoIP, Surveillance and Wi-Fi AP deployments, scalable for future growth. Never face the risk of running out of PoE ports or PoE power budget with power budgets of 390W (GC728XP) and 505W (GC752XP).

Ethernet port, and across long distances. Support for Fiber and Copper modules.

switches that support ﬁber links. Backward compatible to Gigabit ﬁber. Support copper or ﬁber modules.

Quickly conﬁrm switch has power and is connected to the cloud/internet, fan is operating normally or not, and if max PoE budget has been reached.

system log ﬁles for troubleshooting.

at 25°C (77°F) ambient.

Maximum power reduction for ongoing operation cost savings.

Locally or remotely setup, conﬁgure, manage, monitor or even troubleshoot your network from anywhere, anytime. Check network status, view dashboards for network health and activity, power cycle PoE ports, etc, and update ﬁrmware remotely. No need to be on-site, open up ports to your network, or VPN into it.

Additional Insight Managed devices added to the network automatically inherit settings and conﬁguration of the network.

Multi-site, Multi-network Single Pane-of-Glass View

Comprehensive IPv6 Support for Management, ACLs and QoS

IPv4 & IPv6 Static Routing A simple way to provide segmentation of the network with internal routing through the switch – reserving

Robust Security Features (802.1x, ACLs, MAC Authentication)

Comprehensive QoS Features (802.1p, DSCP, Rate-limiting)

View and conﬁgure multiple networks across multiple sites, all from one single app; NETGEAR Insight.

Build current network with future in mind. Ensure investment protection and a smooth migration to an IPv6-based network without switch replacement.

the router for external trac routing only, making the entire network more ecient.

Build a secured, converged network with all types of trac by preventing external attacks and blocking malware while allowing secure access for authorized users.

Advanced controls for optimized network performance and better delivery of mission-critical trac such as voice and video.

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Soware Features Beneﬁts

Auto-VoIP, Auto-Voice VLAN, and Auto-Video VLAN

IGMP Snooping and MLD Snooping Facilitate fast receiver joins and leaves for multicast streams. Save cost and improve network eciency by

Protected Ports Ensure no exchange of unicast, broadcast, or multicast trac between the protected ports on the switch,

DHCP Snooping Ensure IP address allocation integrity by only allowing DHCP messages from trusted DHCP servers and

Dynamic VLAN Assignment (RADIUS)

Private VLAN Private VLANs help reduce broadcast with added security.

Port Trunking/Link Aggregation (LACP)

Loop Prevention and Auto-DoS Prevention

PoE Timer and Scheduling Allows IT administrators to increase network security, better utilize network resources and conserve energy

Port Mirroring and Cable Test Many-to-one port mirroring for better and quicker network diagnostics and troubleshooting. Cable test

Firmware Updates from Cloud Direct cloud-to-device ﬁrmware updates, initiated and/or scheduled using the Insight mobile app or Insight

Automatic Voice over IP prioritization (Auto-VoIP) simpliﬁes most complex multi-vendor IP telephone deployments either based on protocols (SIP, H.323 and SCCP) or on OUI bytes (default database and user-based OUIs) in the phone source MAC address, providing the best class of service to VoIP streams (both data and signaling) over other ordinary trac by classifying trac, and enabling correct egress queue conﬁguration. Similarly, Auto-Video VLAN enables IGMP snooping to minimize broadcast streams.

ensuring multicast trac only reaches designated receivers without the need of an extra multicast router.

thereby improving the security of your converged network. This allows your sensitive phone phone conversations to stay private and your surveillance video clips can be forwarded to their designated storage device without leakage or alteration.

dropping malformed DHCP messages with a port or MAC address mismatch.

IP phones and PCs can authenticate on the same port but under dierent VLAN assignment policies. Users are free to move around and enjoy the same level of network access regardless of their physical location on the network.

Build up bigger bandwidth to support aggregated uplink/downlink trac or to provide redundant link(s). Aggregate up to 8 ports for 8Gbps connections.

Detect and prevent (auto port shutdown) accidental network loops and protect against DoS attacks.

by scheduling or remotely controlling on/o of PoE ports.

easily identiﬁes bad Ethernet cables.

Cloud Portal, all from the palm of your hand, anytime, anywhere!

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, oces, 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 aer you’ve already lost business or suered signicant down-time.

• Advanced L2+/L3 Lite network features such as IPv4/IPv6 management, VLANs, DiServ 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. Extended ProSUPPORT service plans available for purchase.

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 (GC728XP) and 505W (GC752XP), the PoE versions are designed to meet the current and future needs of wireless converged networks.

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