D-Link’s wireless switch will enhance your growing business. The end-to-end solutions provider for customers and businesses, D-Link has unveiled its first wireless smart switch, named DES 1228P for growing businesses looking for cost effective solution for network infrastructure with the added benefit of centralized access point (AP) management.
D-Link’s DES 1228P is especially designed for businesses with up to 200 employees. The 4 gigabit DES 1228P is featured with centralized AP management for easy installment, replacement, configuration and to monitor multiple APs. It has all purpose 24 port and 10/100 smart switch with Power PoE. It has a user friendly web based graphical user interface (GUI) and allows customers to add wireless management functionality free of charge through a firmwire upgrade. It offers configuration templates for easy set up due to in-built WEP, WPA(TM) and WPA2(TM) security. It has an AP mapping utility with full-time AP status controls. The DES 1228P has ability to maintain all AP traffic history and generate reports with statistical diagrams. It automatically disperses traffic equally among multiple APs due to AP load balancing feature.
D-Link’s DES 1228P not only works as smart wireless switch but also offers all functionality of smart wired switch like virtual local area network (VLAN) segmentation, quality of service (QoS) prioritization and denial of service (DoS) prevention. It also includes wide array functions like 10/100Mbs auto-negotiation, Universal UTP cable recognition, full/half duplex support, IEEE standards support. The other key features of DES 1228P are given below:
1) 802.11b/g compliance: 802.11g provides up to 54Mbps speeds and is compatible with the majority of wireless network clients on the market.
2) Support for 24 Access Points (APs): It supports more than 24 access points, which could be equipped with ample wireless coverage.
3) D-Link Smart Wireless Local Area Network Manager: It is a handy D-Link utility, which can discover the future related D-Link Web Smart switches and APs with the 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) feature by assigning IP range.
4) D-Link Safeguard Engine(TM): It provides advanced mechanisms to detect an attack against the central processing unit of the switch and takes corrective action on the attacking interface. In the face of a Denial of Service (DoS), it detects the threat and prevents overload of the central processor, thus ensuring network integrity and helping to maintain open network bandwidth channels.
5) 802.1D Spanning Tree: It provides protection from unintentional cable loops forming within a network infrastructure.
6) Port Trunking: It supports static port trunking of up to six groups of eight ports per device. Ports can be combined together to create multi-link load-sharing aggregated trunks to a server or a network backbone. To expand the network, the switch uses link aggregation to eliminate bottlenecks between cascading switches.
7) 802.1Q VLANs: It provides support for improved security and bandwidth utilization.VLANs work by segmenting broadcast domains, thus reducing network congestion due to constant network broadcasting.
8) SNMP Management: It is a useful tool for managing and controlling SNMP-supported devices and giving users instant status.
9) 802.1P Priority Tagging: In 802.1P a port can receive frames with varying priority tags and classify them based on these tags. VoIP phones that support 802.1P can assign priorities to VoIP, ensuring clear and jitter-free communication.
10) IGMP Snooping: It forwards multicast packets such as streaming audio and video without increasing network broadcast congestion.
11) 802.1x Authentication: It provides a secure means to allow users to log on to the network.
Via: eChannel Line
