NETGEAR On An Expansion Mode In India With 5-Speed Multi-Gigabit Switches

Nasdaq-listed NETGEAR, a leading provider of networking devices, powering today’s smart home and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), is now on an expansion mode in India. It is in the process of expanding its family of industry-first 5-speed multi-gigabit switching products by rolling out XS724EM and XS505M  switches in India. San Jose-headquartered global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, builds its products on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless (WiFi and LTE), ethernet and power-line. The focus always is on reliability and ease-of-use. Its products are sold in nearly approximately 31,000 retail locations across the world, and through nearly 28,000 value-added resellers, as well as multiple major cable, mobile and wireline service providers all over the world.

“These days, new devices on your network operate each at their own speed for optimum performance. We can assure you that with NETGEAR, your newest devices are able to reach their zenith in performance because of our new 5-Speed switches, which automatically can sense and adjust to the appropriate speed on a per port basis, over existing cabling, thereby making it more cost-effective at the same time,” said, Marthesh Nagendra, Country Manager, India and SAARC, NETGEAR.

Modern high-performance networking devices such as network cards, gaming PCs, desktop PCs, servers, NAS storage and AC Wave 2 Wireless Access Points now offer both 2.5-Gigabit or 5-Gigabit connectivity. Interestingly, all other 10-gigabit switches, that are available in the market, offer a standard 1-gigabit connectivity to any device that requires less than 10Gbps, while NETGEAR multi-gigabit switches, on their parts, come up with additional options for 2.5 and 5Gbps. Therefore, business organisations are able to combine legacy ethernet speeds like 100 Mbps or 1Gbps, with 10Gbps and now 2.5 and 5Gbps. It ensures that all of the devices in one’s business, small office or home can run at their individual highest speeds. NETGEAR has designed and developed these switches to be plug-and-play in the hands of the customers. That makes them capable of easily leveraging the full potential of performance and coverage offered by the latest high-speed devices.

Quite significantly, each of the intelligent multi-speed copper ethernet ports on the switches from the stable of NETGEAR, automatically detects the speed requested by the connected device and the quality of the cabling and thus provides the appropriate connection at one of the five speeds. There is another significant advantage of NETGEAR offer as well, which is that the ports can be connected to regular Cat5E ethernet cables and that too, without necessarily upgrading to Cat6 wiring. It thereby reduces wiring costs and hassle. Mind you that each of these switches also has two SFP+ fiber ports with 1-Gigabit or 10-Gigabit connectivity that is ideal for providing a high-speed uplink to your core network. Nagendra pointed out that both the switches actually go beyond basic network connectivity by adding what it calls ‘REVS’ (Reliability, Enhanced Control, Visibility, and Security) values to any SMB network.