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

PLANET GS-4210-8P2S is a cost-optimized, desktop-size Managed Gigabit PoE+ Switch featuring PLANET intelligent PoE functions to improve the availability of critical business applications. It provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management and built-in L2/L4 Gigabit switching engine along with 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 36-watt 802.3at PoE+ and 2 additional Gigabit SFP slots. With a total power budget of up to 120 watts for different kinds of PoE applications, it 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 cybersecurity feature that virtually needs no effort and cost to have includes the protection of the switch management and the enhanced security of the mission-critical network. Both SSH and TLS protocols are utilized to provide strong protection against advanced threats.


Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management

As it is the managed PoE switch for surveillance, wireless and VoIP networks, the GS-4210-8P2S features the following special PoE management functions:

- PD Alive Check
- Scheduled Power Recycling
- PoE Schedule
- PoE Usage Monitoring
- PoE Extension


Intelligent Powered Device Alive-Check

The GS-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S 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.


PoE Usage Monitoring

Via the power usage chart in the web management interface, the GS-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S operates on a per-port basis at 10Mbps duplex operation but can support 36-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-4210-8P2S provides an additional solution for 802.3at/af PoE distance extension, thus saving the cost of Ethernet cable installation.


Environmentally-friendly, Smart Fan Design for Silent Operation

The GS-4210-8P2S features a desktop-sized metal housing, a low noise design and an effective ventilation system. It supports the smart fan technology that automatically controls the speed of the built-in fan to reduce noise and maintain the temperature of the PoE switch for optimal power output capability. The GS-4210-8P2S is able to operate reliably, stably and quietly in any environment without affecting its performance.


IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management

Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the GS-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S 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-4210-8P2S 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

• Physical Port
• 8 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper ports with 8-port IEEE 802.3at/af PoE injector function
• 2 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots
• Power over Ethernet
• Complies with IEEE 802.3at Power over Ethernet Plus, end-span PSE
• Backward compatible with IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet
• Up to 8 ports of IEEE 802.3af / 802.3at devices powered
• Supports PoE power up to 36 watts for each PoE port
• 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
• PD classification detection
• PD alive check
• PoE schedule
• 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
• Quality of Service
• Ingress and 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 co-operate with the RADIUS servers
• RADIUS / TACACS+ login user access authentication
• Access control list
• IPv4 / IPv6 IP-based ACL
• MAC-based ACL
• 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
• SSH/SSL