Netgear With Three new Chassis for Improved Network Performance

Netgear, Inc. announced three products providing higher throughput and capabilities for improved network performance in businesses and education facilities.

With these new, scalable offerings for wireless access management, switching, and storage in higher-density environments, the commercial product portfolio offers a solution breadth, support, and good price-to-performance ratio.

Netgear built this products with performance, flexible deployment, and ease of use. They are designed to enable networks in growing and medium-sized businesses with larger campuses or branch offices, as well as mid-sized hospitality facilities, K-12 schools, university campuses, and medical complexes.

Products include:

• ProSAFE M6100 chassis series: Under-$8,000 all-in-one chassis offers the GbE and 10GbE port solution in a 4U footprint. It’s a fully distributed fabric, passive backplane solution with full management and power redundancy.
• ProSAFE WC9500 wireless controller: This controller supports the range of ProSAFE Managed Access Points. It’s a scalable, centralized solution for dense environments, supporting up to 200 access points per controller in a stacked arrangement.
• ReadyNAS 3130 series NAS: With a 1U form factor for rack deployment in businesses of any size, this 4-bay NAS has a capacity up to 24TB. Its processor supports up to 200 simultaneous users and is suitable for virtualized environments.

“Businesses, hospitality sites and education facilities are looking for networking solutions that offer the ability to scale as the company grows, without taking a hit in performance. When they need to add more users or connect more access points or support a new branch office, network managers want solutions that can support denser deployments and possible future applications and devices,” said Peter Newton, senior director of product management, commercial business unit, Netgear.

He added: “With these needs in mind, we’ve set new chassis performance standards with our new M6100 Chassis Series. Our WC9500 Premium Controller supports even larger deployments in stackable scenarios, as does the ReadyNAS 3130 with its more powerful CPU. With all three products, we’re delivering capabilities to meet today’s business needs as well as those of tomorrow. They simply can’t be matched for overall value in their market category.“

ProSAFE M6100 chassis series
The ProSAFE M6100 series is a chassis alternative to stackable switches for businesses. It’s an flexible chassis platform that enables performance, resilient, redundant and future-ready switched networks from the Core to the Edge – without hurting or exhausting IT budgets.

“The M6100 Series has enabled us to consolidate our switched network to deliver bandwidth and management efficiencies, while concurrently improving our overall redundant footprint for the core parts of our network,” said Gary Girolimon, IT director, Goffstown School District, Goffstown, New Hampshire.

The M6100 comprises Gigabit access layer and 10 Gigabit distribution layer switches in a 4U footprint. With more than 1.4 Tbp/s switching and routing capacity, passive backplane, management and fabric nonstop forwarding redundancy, the M6100 Series delivers resiliency and scalability. Its operating software and system management features take the complexity out of delivering L2/L3/L4-rich services for enterprise edge and SMB core deployments. UPOE capability extends its potential and delivers investment protection to leverage today’s and tomorrow’s evolving powered devices.

The M6100 is designed for use at the center of a small to mid-sized organization network, or as an aggregated or access solution in a larger campus or mid-sized enterprise branch network. For those who require a resilient GbE connectivity to the desktop or 10GbE for virtualized server and storage needs, the M6100 provides backplane speeds with hitless failover to deliver enterprise-grade service level.

The M6100 offers multiple port combinations to suit diverse needs, with up to 144-port GbE or 72-port 10GbE ports. Netgear is offering a cost-effective ProSAFE M6100 Starter Kit (XCM8903SK-10000S) comprising the essentials for a ready-made, turnkey solution:

• 1 M6100-3S base chassis (XCM8903)

• 1 blade 40x1GbE + 4x10GbE (XCM8944)

• 1 PoE+ daughter card (XCM89P)

• 1 power supply unit (APS1000W)

• 1 fan tray front to back (AFT603)

• Rack-mount kit (with handles) for 2-post racks and wiring cabinets

• Sliding rails kit for 4-post racks and wiring cabinets

The ProSAFE M6100 chassis series starter kit is available at an MSRP in the U.S. of $7,990. The M6100 is backed by lifetime hardware warranty, lifetime next business day shipping for part replacement, and 24×7 lifetime technical support.*

ProSAFE WC9500 wireless controller
It controller is an wireless controller that manages the ProSAFE Managed Access Points, including single-band and dual-band. Designed for management and use in dense deployments, it offers functionality and capability but without the cost and complexity of big IT. The WC9500 is a scalable, secure mobile access solution that can support a growing organization with dozens of users, with up to several thousand concurrent clients across 600 access points in a stacked arrangement of three controllers. It’s an solution for medium to large-sized organizations with high bandwidth multimedia needs, such as businesses, K-12 schools, colleges, medical complexes, and hospitality sites with in-room access points.

With its Ufast protocol, the WC9500 delivers ultra-fast access point discovery, Layer 2 and Layer 3 fast roaming, a captive portal for guest access, a distributed architecture, and configuration and dynamic RF management in dense environments. A pay-as-you grow licensing model of 10 access point licenses ensures that the organization only pays for what is needed. Moreover, the WC9500 is 802.11ac wireless-ready, providing investment protection for future applications or devices.

The WC9500 is backed by ProSAFE lifetime hardware warranty, lifetime next business day shipping for part replacement, and 24×7 lifetime technical support.* The WC9500 is available today at an MSRP of $5,999 in the U.S. A 10-access point license is available for an MSRP of $1,056.

ReadyNAS 3130 Series NAS

The product line of NAS provides businesses with an solution for centralizing, securing and controlling access to digital assets. ReadyNAS pairs in performance with the groundbreaking ReadyNAS OS (OS 6.2) that features technology in 5 levels of complete data protection, backup, sync, and cloud-based management. It offers innovative efficiency technologies such as snapshots, thin provisioning, and cloud-managed replication for reducing any possibility of data loss.

The four-bay ReadyNAS 3130 with four GbE ports has a 1U form factor for rack deployment in offices of all sizes. It has a capacity up to 24 TB of high-performance storage for supporting up to 200 simultaneous users. With its CPU, ReadyNAS 3130 is virtualization-ready with iSCSI support, thin provisioning capability, and interoperability with VMware and Hyper-V – powerful tools for businesses taking advantage of virtual infrastructures.

ReadyNAS 3130 is available diskless (RN3130) or populated with four 2TB drives (RN31342E). The diskless edition of RN3130 is available worldwide at an MSRP of $1,499 in the U.S. ReadyNAS products are backed by the 5-year limited hardware warranty, 5-year next business day shipping for part replacement, and 24×7 lifetime technical support.

* Lifetime technical support is provided via free phone support for first 90 days, and via free online chat thereafter. Next business day shipping may not be available in all localities worldwide. Customer should consult their local Netgear representative for applicable support services.