PLANET GS-4210-24P4C 24-Port 10/100/1000T 802.3at Gigabit PoE + 4-Port Gigabit TP/SFP Combo Managed Switch Overview

A Perfect Managed PoE+ Switch with Advanced L2/L4 Switching and Security

PLANET GS-4210-24P4C/GS-4210-24PL4C is  a cost-optimized, Gigabit PoE+ Managed Switch featuring PLANET intelligent PoE functions to improve the availability of critical business applications. PLANET GS-4210-24P4C 24-Port Combo Managed Switch provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit switching engine along with 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 30-watt 802.3at PoE+ and 4 additional Gigabit TP/SFP combo ports. With a total power budget of up to 280 watts/430 watts for different kinds of PoE applications, the GS-4210 PoE series 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 PoE series 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, dynamic 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 PoE Series 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 PoE series features the following special PoE management functions:

• PD Alive Check
• Scheduled Power Recycling
• PoE Schedule
• The PoE Usage Monitoring
• Extension

Intelligent Powered Device Alive Check

The GS-4210 PoE series 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 PoE series 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 PoE series 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 PoE series 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.

The PoE Usage Monitoring

Via the power usage chart in the web management interface, the GS-4210 PoE series 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 PoE series operates on a per-port basis at 10Mbps duplex operation but can support 30-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 PoE series provides an additional solution for 802.3at/af PoE distance extension, thus saving the cost of Ethernet cable installation.

IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management

Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the GS-4210 PoE series 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 PoE series 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 PoE series 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 PoE series 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.

Powerful Security

PLANET GS-4210 PoE series offers comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Layer 2 to Layer 4 Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It can be used to restrict network access by denying packets based on source and destination IP address, TCP/UDP ports or defined typical network applications. Its protection mechanism also comprises 802.1X port-based user and device authentication, which can be deployed with RADIUS and TACACS+ to ensure the port level security and block illegal users. With the protected port function, communication between edge ports can be prevented to guarantee user privacy. Furthermore, Port security function allows to limit the number of network devices on a given port.

User-friendly and Secure Management

For efficient management, the GS-4210 PoE series is equipped with web, Telnet and SNMP management interfaces.

• With the built-in Web-based management interface, the GS-4210 PoE series offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility.
• For text-based management, the switch can be accessed via Telnet and the console port.
• By supporting the standard SNMP, the switch can be managed via any standard management software

Moreover, the GS-4210 PoE series offers secure remote management by supporting SSHv2, TLSv1.2 and SNMP v3 connections which encrypt the packet content at each session.

Flexibility and Long-distance Extension Solution

The GS-4210-24P4C and GS-4210-24PL4C provide 4 extra Gigabit TP interfaces supporting 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 copper to connect with surveillance network devices such as NVR, Video Streaming Server or NAS to facilitate surveillance management. Or through these dual-speed fiber SFP slots, it can also connect with the 100BASE-FX/1000BASE-SX/LX SFP (Small Form-factor Pluggable) fiber transceiver 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 up to above 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 PoE series 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.

Key features

Physical Port

• 28-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper with 24-Port IEEE 802.3at/af PoE Injector (Port-1 to Port-24)
• 4 100/1000BASE-X SFP slots, shared with port-25 to port-28 compatible with 100BASE-FX SFP
• RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup
• Reset button for system factory default and reboot

Switching

• Hardware-based 10/100Mbps, half/full duplex and 1000Mbps full duplex mode, flow control and auto-negotiation, and auto MDI/MDI-X
• Features Store-and-Forward mode with wire-speed filtering and forwarding rates
• IEEE 802.3x flow control for full duplex operation and back pressure for half duplex operation
• 10K jumbo frame
• Supports ESD protection
  • Contact Discharge 4KV DC
  • Air Discharge 8KV DC
• Automatic address learning and address aging
• Supports CSMA/CD protocol

Power over Ethernet

• Complies with IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus, end-span PSE
• Backward compatible with the  IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
• Up to 24 ports of IEEE 802.3af/802.3at devices powered
• Supports PoE power up to 30 watts for each PoE port
• 280-watt PoE budget for GS-4210-24P4C
• 430-watt PoE budget for GS-4210-24PL4C
• 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
  • Total PoE power budget control
  • Per port PoE function enable/disable
  • PoE Port Power feeding priority
  • Per PoE port power limitation
  • PoE delay
  • PD classification detection
• Intelligent PoE features
  • PD alive check
  • PoE schedule
  • PoE extension

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
  • 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)
• 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 cooperate with the RADIUS servers
  • DHCP Option 82
  • RADIUS/TACACS+ login user access authentication
• Access Control List
  • IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACL
  • IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACE
  • MAC-based ACL
  • MAC-based 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 SNMP v3 secure access
• SNMP Management
  • Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events)
  • SNMP trap for interface Link Up and Link Down notification
• 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 through Web interface
  • Dual Images
  • Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
• SNTP Network Time Protocol
• Network Diagnostic
  • ICMPv6/ICMPv4 Remote Ping
  • Cable Diagnostics
  • SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor)
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Protocol and LLDP-MED
• Event message logging to remote Syslog server
• PLANET Smart Discovery Utility for deployment management
• PLANET NMS system and CloudViewer for deployment management

Specification