Netgear GS504

Netgear GS504 ... Ethernet to speed up network performance while preserving ease of use and plug and play installation for the small business users. Once again, NETGEAR is making the latest network technology available and affordable for the small business market.

This network switch provides high-performance backbone connectivity between workgroups, data centers, and server farms. Multiple 100 Mbps users can concurrently access the backbone and servers without network congestion. The unit is plug and play with no software to install and no complicated options to configure. It preserves 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet investment via 10/100 switches with Gigabit uplink ports such as the NETGEAR FS509 and FS518, and is compatible with all major network software and protocols. The GS504 is a non-blocking switch providing an aggregate throughput of up to 5.9 million packets per second and supporting 8, 000 users or devices on the network. It uses multimode fiber optics technology to provide high security and a network reach of up to 260 meters.