IT Web – Netgear resolves network speed challenges with new Multi-Gig switches
One of the biggest challenges facing small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) today is the exploding bandwidth demands of the latest networking devices.
WiFi standards such as 802.11ac and increasingly powerful servers and workstations that move large data files are demanding network access speeds beyond the conventional one gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) or 1 000BASE-T standard to faster platforms such as 2.5Gbps and even 5Gbps.
A data-hungry network storage device such as Netgear’s ReadyNAS appliance can handle close to 20Gbps, but a conventional network holds it back from completing its hourly backups or fast replications, says Tobie van Schalkwyk, business development manager at Duxbury Networking, the local Netgear distributor.
It begs the question: why don’t SMEs simply migrate to the 10Gbps Ethernet (10GBASE-T) standard?
