Product Datasheet/Brochure

Hardware at a Glance
FRONT REAR SIDE
Model
Name
Form-Factor
LEDs
(System)
Gigabit Copper
(RJ-45) Ports
1G SFP Fiber
Ports
10G SFP+ Fiber
Ports
PoE/PoE+ Ports
(Budget)
LEDs
(Per Port)
Power
Supply
Fans
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Rackmount,
Desktop
Cloud, Power,
Fan
24 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated) N/A
Speed/Link/
Activity
1 internal
PSU, fixed
1 internal
fan, fixed
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Rackmount,
Desktop
Cloud, Power,
PoE Max, Fan
24 2 (dedicated) 2 (dedicated) 24 PoE+ (390W)
Speed/Link/
Activity, PoE
1 internal
PSU, fixed
2 internal
fans, fixed
GC728X: 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet Insight Managed Smart
Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports
24 x 1000BASE-T Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds
2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports
2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds
Max 28dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient
GC728XP: 28-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Insight Managed Smart
Cloud Switch w/2 SFP and 2 SFP+ 10G Fiber Ports
24 x 1000BASE-T PoE+ Copper ports supporting 1G/100M speeds
2 x 1000BASE-X Dedicated SFP Fiber ports
2 x 10GBASE-X Dedicated SFP+ Fiber ports supporting 10G/1G speeds
390W PoE budget (max 39dB @ 25°C / 77°F ambient)
Soware at a Glance
Performance at a Glance
Model
Name
CPU & Memory
Fabric
(Full-
duplex)
Latency
(64-byte Packet @
Max Connection
Speed)
Packet
Buer
Packet
Forwarding
Rate
(64-byte)
ACLs
MAC Address
Table
ARP/NDP Table
VLANs
Static
Routes (IPv4
& IPv6)
Priority
Queues
Multicast
IGMP
Groups
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GC728XP
400 MHz Cortex-A9
Single Core,
512MB RAM
8MB SPI + 256
NAND FLASH
92Gbps
line-rate
1G Copper: 3.200 μs
1G SFP: 1.720 μs
10G SFP+: 1.510 μs
1.5 MB 68.5 Mfps 100
(shared)
16K MAC
(dynamic)
384 ARP / 256
NDP
256 VLANs
IPv4: 32
IPv6: 31
8 (WRR) 512
MANAGEMENT LAYER 2
Device
Management
Network Management
Features
IPv4 /
IPv6
ACL and
QoS
IPv4 / IPv6
Multicast
Filtering
VLANs
Auto-VoIP,
Auto-Video
Convergence
Link
Aggregation/
Port Trunking
IPv4 &
IPv6
Static
Routing
NETGEAR Insight mobile
app or Insight Cloud Portal
for local/remote/anywhere
management from your
mobile device, PC, Mac,
or tablet
Local web browser-based
management GUI, SNMP,
RMON
IPv4 & IPv6 management
Centralized network
configuration (policies)
Auto-join & configure
(zero-touch provisioning)
Multi-site, multi-network
single pane-of-glass
view
Multi-switch/multi-port
concurrent configuration
L2, L3, L4
Ingress
IGMP and
MLD
Snooping
Static,
Dynamic,
Voice,
Video, MAC,
Protocol-
based, and
Private
Yes LLDP-MED,
RADIUS,
802.1X
LACP and
Manual Static
LAGs
(up to 24 LAGs
with max 8
members)
Yes
Insight Managed Gigabit Ethernet/10G SFP+ Smart Cloud Switches Data Sheet
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