USRobotics USR997748 Courier 48-Port Smart Gigabit Switch £231.73 @ Broadbandbuyer

Is it any faster than any regular old non-smart Gigabit switch?

Must admit, I'm amazed that a bit of kit that would almost never be used by a standard consumer has hit the front page!

Not a bad price, but you wont sway me from Cisco kit if you are going for smart switches I'm afraid

Not even at 200 quid?

Wow! Cheap!

I'm going to buy two for home and some for work too!

Hot!

Powered ports? dot1q VLANs? Layer 3 routing?

Scorching, but very much doubt that there are many homes in this country that possess more than 24 Gigabit capable network devices!!!

Vlans yes, PoE and L3 routing - you must be mad at this price, not a hope!

I am curious as to the backend throughput though.....pointless having 48 Gig ports if the throughput is only 2Gig!

totally right

No layer 3, no POE, but it does do VLANs and QoS...Not sure that Cisco do a layer 2 gigabit switch, but if they did, it would cost a lot more.

Specifications and Standards
General
Complies with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab,
IEEE 802.3z (GBIC)
Supports full-duplex and half-duplex operation with IEEE 802.3x flow control and back pressure flow control
Supports IEEE 802.1p QoS traffic prioritization
Embedded 1024 KB RAM for data buffering
Supports jumbo frame (maximum length is 9220 bytes)
Integrated address look-up engine, supports 8K absolute MAC addresses
Auto MDI/MDIX
Port- and Tag-based VLAN
MTBF - 120,000 hours
Management
Web based configuration of key functionality, including:
802.1Q VLAN
Quality of Service (QoS)
Port Mirroring
Port Trunking
Port configuration setting: Speed, duplex mode and device flow control
Utility based configuration and switch detection
Change Password
Assign IP addressing parameters
Firmware upgrades
Switch monitoring
Physical
48 auto-sensing 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 Ethernet ports
Four 1000 Mbps auto-sensing mini-GBIC ports
Visual Diagnostic LEDs: Power, System, Ethernet Ports (48), and mini-GBIC Ports (4)
Standard 1U, 19 inch rack-mount case design
Internal power supply

An awful lot more in fact. We normally buy 24 porters with 2 GigEthernet interfaces at about £300 ex VAT.

Dare I say you get what you pay for however!!

Sorry - I am biased (Cisco certified through and through). For a SMB this is a scorching price for a fit for purpose bit of kit.

Must admit, still confused by its presence on this site!!!

No dot1x though apparently...

Throughout (according to the manual) is 96gbs.

http://www.usr.com/download/datashee...48/7748-ds.pdf

Yheap me too. I'm gonna setup a Network LAN Party with my buddies and their buddies....

Did you mean 'backbone'?

Indeed I did, word escaped me for a moment cheers!