A Perfect Managed PoE+ Switch with Advanced L2/L4 Switching and Security
PLANET GS-4210-8P2C is a cost-optimized, desktop-size Managed Gigabit PoE+ Switch featuring PLANET intelligent PoE functions to improve the availability of critical business applications. It provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit switching engine along with 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 32-watt 802.3at PoE+, 2 additional Gigabit copper ports and 2 additional 100/1000BASE-X SFP fiber slots. With a total power budget of up to 120 watts for different kinds of PoE applications, it provides a quick, safe and cost-effective Power over Ethernet network solution for small businesses and enterprises.
Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks
The GS-4210-8P2C supports SSHv2 and TLS protocols to provide strong protection against advanced threats. It includes a range of cybersecurity features such as DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard, ARP Inspection Protection, 802.1x port-based network access control, RADIUS and TACACS+ user accounts management, SNMPv3 authentication, and so on to complement it as an all-security solution.
Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications
The GS-4210-8P2C supports redundant ring technology and features strong, rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology, Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s MSTP) into customer’s network to enhance system reliability and uptime in various environments.
Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management
As it is the managed PoE switch for surveillance, wireless and VoIP networks, the GS-4210-8P2C features the following special PoE management functions:
- PD Alive Check
- Scheduled Power Recycling
- PoE Schedule
- PoE Usage Monitoring
- PoE Extension
Intelligent Powered Device Alive-Check
The GS-4210-8P2C can be configured to monitor connected PD (powered device) status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the GS-4210-8P2C will resume the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It will greatly enhance the network reliability through the PoE port resetting the PD’s power source, thus reducing the administrator’s management burden.
Scheduled Power Recycling
The GS-4210-8P2C allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points to reboot at a specified time each week. Therefore, it will reduce the chance of IP camera or AP crash resulting from buffer overflow.
PoE Schedule for Energy Savings
Under the trend of energy savings worldwide and contributing to environmental protection, the GS-4210-8P2C can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The “PoE schedule” function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and money. It also increases security by powering off PDs that should not be in use during non-business hours.
PoE Usage Monitoring
Via the power usage chart in the web management interface, the GS-4210-8P2C enables the administrator to monitor the status of the power usage of the connected PDs in real time. Thus, it greatly enhances the management efficiency of the facilities.
802.3at PoE+ Power and Ethernet Data Transmission Distance Extension
In the “Extend” operation mode, the GS-4210-8P2C operates on a per-port basis at 10Mbps duplex operation but can support 20-watt PoE power output over a distance of up to 250 meters overcoming the 100m limit on Ethernet UTP cable. With this brand-new feature, the GS-4210-8P2C provides an additional solution for 802.3at/af PoE distance extension, thus saving the cost of Ethernet cable installation.
Environmentally-friendly, Silent Fan Design for System Cooling
The GS-4210-8P2C features a desktop-sized metal housing, a low noise design and an effective ventilation system that help maintain the temperature of the PoE switch for optimal power output capability. Thus, the GS-4210-8P2C is able to operate reliably, stably and quietly in any environment without affecting its performance.
IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management
Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the GS-4210-8P2C helps the SMBs to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment as its network facilities need not be replaced or overhauled if the IPv6 FTTx edge network is set up.
Robust Layer 2 Features
The GS-4210-8P2C can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation, 802.1Q VLAN and Q-in-Q VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree protocol (MSTP), loop and BPDU guard, IGMP snooping, and MLD snooping. Via the link aggregation, the GS-4210-8P2C allows the operation of a high-speed trunk to combine with multiple ports, and supports fail-over as well. Also, the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is the Layer 2 protocol included to help discover basic information about neighboring devices on the local broadcast domain.
Efficient Traffic Control
The GS-4210-8P2C is loaded with robust QoS features and powerful traffic management to enhance services to business-class data, voice, and video solutions. The functionality includes broadcast/multicast storm control, per port bandwidth control, IP DSCP QoS priority and remarking. It guarantees the best performance for VoIP and video stream transmission, and empowers the enterprises to take full advantage of the limited network resources.
Flexible Long-distance Extension Solution
The two mini-GBIC ports built in the GS-4210-8P2C support SFP auto-detection and dual speed as it features 100BASE-FX and 1000BASE-SX/LX SFP (small form-factor pluggable) fiber transceivers to uplink to backbone switch and monitoring center in long distance. The distance can be extended from 550 meters to 2 kilometers (multi-mode fiber) and to 10/20/40/60/80/120 kilometers (single-mode fiber or WDM fiber). They are well suited for applications within the enterprise data centers and distributions.
Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism
The GS-4210-8P2C supports SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor) function that can easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP for network administrator, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.
High Scalability for Today’s 8-channel IP Surveillance Solution
The GS-4210-8P2C comes with non-blocking design and SFP fiber-optic modules, bringing network infrastructure higher flexibility but lower in cost. Providing eight 10/100/1000BASE-T 802.3at PoE+ ports, two 10/100/1000BASE-T copper ports, in-line power interfaces and two Gigabit SFP ports, the GS-4210-8P2C can easily build a video surveillance on the NVR system for the SOHO/SMBs. For instance, it can work with eight PoE IP cameras and extend the network infrastructure easily for today’s businesses.
Department/Workgroup 802.3at PoE+ Network
Providing 8 PoE+ in-line power interfaces, the GS-4210-8P2C can easily build a power that centrally controls IP phone system, IP camera system and wireless AP group for enterprises. The GS-4210-8P2C delivers full ports of 802.3af/at compliant Gigabit Ethernet network connectivity with high-performance and cost-effective advantages for the increasing number of PoE IP telephones, PoE IP cameras, PoE wireless access points and other devices applied at the edge of the small or medium enterprise network. The GS-4210-8P2C improves the network efficiency and protects the network clients with the powerful features:
- Layer 2 to Layer 4 security
- QoS/802.1Q VLAN/static trunk/LACP
- 802.1x port-based network access authentication security
- Multicast IGMP snooping
Physical Ports
- 8-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper with 8-Port IEEE 802.3at/af PoE Injector function (Port-1 to Port-8)
- 2-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45
- 2 100/1000BASE-X SFP ports
- RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup
Physical Ports
- Complies with IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus, end-span PSE
- Backward compatible with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
- Up to 8 ports of IEEE 802.3af/802.3at devices powered
- Supports PoE power up to 32 watts for each PoE port
- Auto detects powered device (PD)
- Circuit protection prevents power interference between ports
- Remote power feeding up to 100 meters in standard mode and 250m in extend mode
- PoE management
- Per port PoE function enable/disable
- PoE port power feeding priority
- Per PoE port power allocation
- PD classification detection
- PD alive check
- PoE schedule
Layer 2 Features
- Prevents packet loss with back pressure (half-duplex) and IEEE 802.3x pause frame flow control (full-duplex)
- High performance Store and Forward architecture, broadcast storm control, runt/CRC filtering eliminates erroneous packets to optimize the network bandwidth
- Supports VLAN
- IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
- Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad)
- Protocol VLAN
- Voice VLAN
- Private VLAN (Protected port)
- Management VLAN
- GVRP
- Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
- STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
- RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
- MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)
- STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding
- Supports Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
- Maximum 2 trunk groups, up to 4 ports per trunk group
- Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
- Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops
- Supports ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching)
Quality of Service
- Ingress/Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
- Storm Control support
- Broadcast/Unknown-Unicast/Unknown-Multicast
- Traffic classification
- IEEE 802.1p CoS
- TOS/DSCP/IP Precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets
- Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies
Multicast
- Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v2 and v3
- Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1, v2
- IGMP querier mode support
- IGMP snooping port filtering
- MLD snooping port filtering
Security
- Authentication
- IEEE 802.1X Port-based network access authentication
- Built-in RADIUS client to co-operate with the RADIUS servers
- RADIUS/TACACS+ login user access authentication
- Access Control List
- IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACL/ACE
- MAC-based ACL/ACE
- MAC Security
- Static MAC
- MAC Filtering
- Port Security for Source MAC address entries filtering
- DHCP Snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
- Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
- IP Source Guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
- DoS Attack Prevention
Management
- IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
- Switch Management Interface
- Web switch management
- Console/Telnet Command Line Interface
- SNMP v1 and v2c switch management
- SSHv2, TLSv1.2 and SNMPv3 secure access
- User Privilege Levels Control
- Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
- BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
- System Maintenance
- Firmware upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
- Configuration upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
- Dual Images
- Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
- SNTP Network Time Protocol
- Cable Diagnostics
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED
- SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification
- Event message logging to remote Syslog server
- Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events)
- PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management
- PLANET NMS system and CloudViewer for deployment management