Designed to meet the needs of SOHO, micro businesses and growing small and medium businesses (SMB), NETGEAR is debuting five industry-first network solutions designed to meet the unique demands of growing SMBs including the ProSafe 24- and 48-Port Gigabit Smart Switches with Static Routing (GS724TR and GS748TR), ProSafe 24-Port Gigabit Smart Switch with Advanced Features (GS724AT), ProSafe 802.11n Dual Band Wireless Access Point (WNDAP330), and ReadyNAS Pro 6-Bay Gigabit Desktop Storage (RNDP6000).

NETGEAR also announced major enhancements to its feature-rich PowerShift (TM) Partner Program that will make it easier and potentially more profitable for VARs and solution providers to sell the industry-leading ProSafe family of end-to-end networking solutions.

For the second year in a row, NETGEAR is sponsoring the SMB Solutions Summit to ensure that the unique needs and interests of SMB network administrators and channel professionals are addressed at Interop 2008.

NETGEAR executives will offer presentations on networking topics relevant to SMBs throughout the free three-day summit including: "Optimizing Wireless LAN Deployment and Management for Growing SMB Environments," "Security in the SMB Space," and "Smart Switches vs. Managed Switches: Which is the Ideal Foundation for SMB Networks?" In addition, NETGEAR will host a variety of workshops at the booth focusing on the topics of switching, wireless networking, security, storage, and the PowerShift Partner Program.

"With cutting-edge business applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, security, and VLANs achieving mainstream adoption among growing SMBs, network administrators are facing the ever-increasing challenge of providing a reliable, cost effective, easy-to-use network infrastructure that supports the speeds and quality-of-service required by these demanding applications," stated Patrick Lo, chairman and chief executive officer of NETGEAR.

"NETGEAR has always focused on delivering value-packed solutions to the SMB market that combine the performance and functionality of enterprise-class products with the ease-of-use, scalability, reliability, and value that is critical to growing SMBs. We're continuing to reinforce our dedication to the SMB market and the channel that serves it with the enhancement of our PowerShift Partner Program and the launch of several first-to-market, advanced networking products that broaden our portfolio of end-to-end networking solutions to serve the needs of growing businesses with five to 250+ users. The combination of our robust product portfolio and value-packed channel program will enable NETGEAR to further strengthen its position as the go-to provider for SMB networking solutions," he said.