Netgear GS724T User Manual

ProSafe® 16- and 24-port Gigabit
Smart Switches Data Sheet

GS716T-200, GS724T-300

Designed for SMB Customers with High Performance and Easy Management

The NETGEAR® family of ProSafe® Gigabit Smart Switches is purposely designed for SMB
customers with high performance, SMB-oriented features and easy management. With 16 or
24 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, each capable of powering 2000 Mbps of data throughput in full­duplex mode per port, plus two shared SFP ports, the GS716T-200 and GS724T-300 will enable
SMB networks to support Voice over IP (VoIP), streaming media, multicasting, security, and many
other bandwidth-intensive applications like ERP and large file transfers.

The GS716T-200 and GS724T-300 come with a comprehensive set of features, such as access
control lists (ACL), 802.1x port authentication, enhanced QoS, rate limiting and IGMP snooping
among others to provide a small and medium-sized business with a network that is geared for
growth while ensuring performance and reliability. The GS716T-200 and GS724T-300 are fan­less switches with silent operation for a pleasant environment.

In addition, an intuitive, Web-browser interface offers the simple Smart Switch management,
making it a snap to monitor switch performance, configure ports, even set up port trunks,
VLANs, and traffic prioritization. Alternatively, use SNMP-based software to manage your Smart
Switch. Shipped ready for use straight out of the box, it delivers switching that’s easy to set up
and use. NETGEAR ProSafe Smart Switches are ideal for adding basic management to your
unmanaged networks or extending your managed networks.

Green Ethernet

Intelligent

Ideal Advanced Security

Advanced Quality of Service
(QoS)

• Up to 70% power savings compared to the non-Green version

• Auto power-down mode saves energy when port is unused

• Cable length detection reduces power usage when network cable is shorter than 10 meters.

Smart Switch capability enables key management features for the value price of an unmanaged
switch. Included are performance monitoring, port configuration, VLAN for traffic control, port
trunking for increased bandwidth, and Class of Service (CoS) for traffic prioritization.

These Gigabit Smart Switches provide advanced features that provide more robust security to
the SMBs. These include:

• 802.1x for authentication

• ACL filtering to permit or deny traffic based on MAC or IP addresses.

Priority queuing ensures high-priority traffic gets delivered efficiently, even during congestion
from high-traffic bursts. Companies implementing network telephony or video conferencing,
for example, need to be able to prioritize such voice and video traffic and other real-time
applications over less latency-sensitive traffic to ensure reliability and quality. The ability to
prioritize traffic ensures quality of latency-sensitive services and applications despite increasing
traffic loads. The ProSafe Gigabit Smart Switch provides an extensive set of QoS features:

• 802.1p-based prioritization

• Layer 3-based prioritization

• Rate-limiting

Easy-going and Durable

24/7

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Simple to set up and simple to use for effortless network monitoring and troubleshooting. Made
to last, this sturdy switch is housed in a 17-inch metal box and comes with a rack-mounting kit.

Like all NETGEAR ProSafe Smart Switches, the GS716T and GS724T are backed by the NETGEAR
ProSafe Lifetime Warranty

†

, and 1-Year ProSupport 24x7 Advanced Technical Support*..

ProSafe® 16- and 24-port Gigabit Smart Switches GS716T-200, GS724T-300

Internet

FVS338 ProSafe
VPN Firewall with 8-port
10/100 Switches

Broadband
Modem

WG302 ProSafe 802.11g
Wireless Access Point

Technical Specifications

• Network Protocol and Standards
Compatibility

– IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
– IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit

Ethernet

– IEEE 802.3x full-duplex flow control

• Interfaces

– GS724T-300: 24 RJ-45 connectors for

10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T
(Auto Uplink on all ports)

– GS716T-200: 16 RJ-45 connectors for

10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T
(Auto Uplink on all ports)

– 2 Dual Personality SFP slots for fiber

Gigabit Ethernet modules

• Administrative Switch Management

– IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
– IEEE 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree

Protocol

– IEEE 802.1S Multiple Spanning Tree

Protocol
– Auto-voice VLAN
– SNMP v1, v2c, v3
– RFC 1213 MIB II
– RFC 1643 Ethernet Interface MIB
– RFC1493 Bridge MIB
– Jumbo Frame Support

(up to 9 KB)
– IEEE 802.1Q Tag VLAN
– GS716T-200: 128 Static VLANs
– GS724T-300: 128 Static VLANs
– IEEE 802.1p (Class of Service)
– DSCP - L3 QoS
– Port -based ingress/egress rate limiting
– IEEE 802.3ad static or dynamic link

aggregation (LACP)
– DHCP client function
– Broadcast storm control
– Port mirroring (many-to-one)

GS716T-200/GS724T-300
16- and 24-port
Gigabit Smart Switch

Servers

Desktop PCs

– Port setting
– Green features: Power saving by cable

length ( <10m). Power saving by auto

power when link down
– IGMP snooping v1/v2
– IEEE 802.1x (RAIDUS)
– Access control list (ACL) - MAC, IP
– SNTP
– IEEE 802.1ab LLDP
– Protected ports

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– HTTP and HTTPS
– Auto denial-of-service (DoS) prevention
– Syslog
– Ping & traceroute
– Web-based configuration, anywhere

on the network
– Smartwizard Discovery Utility

program auto discovers devices (up

to 254 agents/switches); set system

configuration to each agent
– Configuration backup/restore (easy to

configure more than one switch)
– Password access control
– Firmware upgradeable
– Support of Ethernet audio/video (EAV)

• Active Flow Control

– Full-duplex IEEE 802.3x pause frame

flow control
– Half-duplex back-pressure control

• Performance Specifications

– Forwarding modes: Store-and-forward
– Bandwidth: GS724T-300 = 48 Gbps,

GS716T-200 = 32 Gbps
– Network latency:

– GS716T-200 average latency 4.5 us

for 1000 Mbps with 64 bytes

– GS724T-300 average latency 4.5 us

for 1000 Mbps with 64 bytes

– Buffer memory: 512 KB embedded

memory per unit
– Priority queues: 4

GS108 8-port
Gigabit Switch

Notebook PCs

– Priority queuing: Weighted Round

Robin (WRR)

– Address database size: 8,000 media

access control (MAC) addresses

per system
– Addressing: 48-bit MAC address
– Mean time between failures (MTBF):

GS716T-200: 307,681 hours

GS724T-300: 282,515 hours
– Acoustic Noise:

GS716T-200: 0 dBA

GS724T-300: 0 dBA

• LEDs

– Unit: Power
– Per port: Link, activity, speed, duplex

• Power Supply

– Maximum Power Consumption:

GS716T-200 - 16.5W

GS724T-300 - 21.5W
– 100-240V AC/50-60 Hz universal input

• Physical Specifications

– Dimensions (h x w x d):

GS716T-200: 43 x 440 x 260 mm

(1.7 x 17.3 x 10.2 in)

GS724T-300: 43 x 440 x 260 mm (1.7

x 17.3 x 10.2 in)
– Weight:

GS716T-200: 72 kg (5.99 lb)

GS724T-300: 87 kg (6.33 lb)

• Environmental Specifications

– Operating temperature:

32° to 131°F (0° to 55° C)
– Storage temperature:

-4° to 158°F (-20° to 70° C)

– Operating humidity: 90% maximum

relative humidity, non-condensing
– Storage humidity: 95% maximum

relative humidity, non-condensing
– Operating altitude: 10,000 ft

(3,000 m) maximum
– Storage altitude: 10,000 ft

(3,000 m) maximum

*** To be available via free firmware upgrade.