Brocade FastIron Workgroup Switch 624G POE Switch L3 Managed

The Brocade FastIron WS series switches are entry level enterprise campus switches that provide cost effective connectivity, PoE for VoIP, and a rich feature set for optimizing the network all the way to the edge. The Brocade FastIron Workgroup Switch WS series is a complete line of one rack unit 1RU enterprise class Layer 2 Layer 3 switches. The FastIron WS series extends the Brocade broad edge to core networking portfolio with a value line of intelligent edge switches designed for small and medium businesses SMB, branch offices, and distributed enterprises with changing business needs, without compromising performance and reliability. The FastIron WS switches are available in 24 and 48 port 10100 or 101001000 Mbps models, with or without IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet PoE, for enterprise edge networking, security, and unified communication UC needs. Featuring standards based PoE, the FastIron WS delivers the scalability, quality of service assurance, resilience, and VoIP readiness needed to implement a high value converged solution at the network edge. Combining Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, PoE, and intelligent fault detection with a feature rich, secure, highly reliability solution, the FastIron WS series offers maximum productivity and investment protection. This cost effective, high performance compact solution enables the deployment of applications such as IP telephony, wireless access, WebTV, video surveillance, building management systems, triple play voice, video and data, and remote video kiosks. The FastIron WS series can also be deployed in metro area networks connecting branch offices with 1GbE uplinks. In this environment, important features include Brocade Metro Ring Protocol for building resilient ring based topologies, VLAN stacking, and multicast capabilities such as IGMP v1v2v3 and MLD v1v2 snooping for controlling multicast traffic in high bandwidth content distribution applications. The FastIron WS series s