NEW DELHI, INDIA: NETGEAR Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products,has announced that the industry's only Gigabit Smart Stackable Switches, the ProSafe 24- and 48-Port Gigabit Stackable Smart Switches (GS724TS and GS748TS), have received the Tolly "Up-to-Spec" certification as the result of a recent feature and performance evaluation conducted by The Tolly Group.

The extensive evaluation conducted by The Tolly Group assessed the GS724TS and GS748TS in the areas of zero-loss Layer 2 throughput, stacking port performance, stack resiliency, management, security, and Quality of Service (QoS). During the extensive testing, Tolly Group engineers verified the zero-loss bi-directional throughput of 20 Gbps aggregate across a three-switch stacking ring topology, the sub-second fail-over when one of the active switches in the stack was failed, the resiliency of the stack when switches were added or failed, management of the stack via Web browser and SNMP-based management software, the ability to authenticate users via 802.1x and refer to a RADIUS server to verify credentials, and the ability to support rate limiting and layer 2/3 prioritization.

"Both SMBs and branch offices need to reduce costs for their IT infrastructures, plus allow for future network upgrades and expansion. Easy-to-manage stackable smart switches can help them to accommodate their needs without significantly adding complexity and costs," stated the Tolly Group report. "Tests show that NETGEAR ProSafe GS748TS and GS724TS support advanced network features – all of the features that are important to SMB and branch office users while delivering robust performance."