Netgear today announced new switches for SMBs that can result in power savings of up to 52 percent. The new ProSafe JGS5xx, GS1xx and GS6xx series switches, which are making an appearance at CeBIT in Germany this week, have features that are becoming de rigueur in green label networking gear. These include automatically cutting power to ports when they're inactive and determining the cable length to supply just the right amount of power required to keep the connection alive.

NETGEAR has applied these green system enhancements to the ProSafe JGS5xx Series of 16- and 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switches (JGS516v2, JGS524v2); the ProSafe GS1xx Series of 5- and 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Desktop Switches (GS105v3, GS108v3); and the GS6xx Series of 5- and 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switches (GS605v3, GS608v3). Together, they represent the best option for SMBs to reduce their ongoing network infrastructure costs.

All of the above models go on sale in the second quarter.

[Press Release]