GS748T Smart Switch Hardware Installation Guide
Introduction 1-3
v1.0, January 2007
Features
The following list identifies the key features of the NETGEAR GS748T Gigabit Smart Switch.
• Forty-eight 10/100/1000 Mbps auto-sensing Gigabit-Ethernet switching ports
• Four SFP GBIC combo Gigabit Ethernet slots for optional fiber connectivity
•Reset Button
• Factory Defaults Button
• Administrative switch management
• IEEE 802.1Q Tag VLAN with up to 48 VIDs ranging in 2 to 4K
• IEEE 802.1p QoS support, two priority queues per port
• Port-based VLAN with up to 48 groups; any one port can belong to different VLAN
groups
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation support
• Embedded HTTP server for Web-based management
• Supports port-setting function, enabling user to enable/disable each port, and set speed,
duplex mode and device flow control
• Auto-Discovery support with application program for discovering and managing the smart
switches on the network
• Flash upgrade, configuration backup/restore, and factory reset
• Full compatibility with IEEE standards:
• IEEE 802.3i (10BASE-T)
• IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-TX)
• IEEE 802.3z/ab (1000BASE-X, 1000Base-T)
• IEEE 802.3x (full-duplex flow control)
• Auto-sense and auto-negotiate for all ports
• Auto Uplink on all ports for the right connection sense
• Integrated address Look-Up Engine supports 8K absolute MAC addresses
• Full- and half-duplex functions for all 10/100/1000 ports
• Store-and-Forward transmission to remove bad packets from the network
• Active flow control to minimize packet loss/frame drops:
• Half-duplex back-pressure control