Netgear intros business-class networking solutions, partners with Avaya for VoIP
By Darren Murph 
posted May 22nd 2007 7:56AM
posted May 22nd 2007 7:56AM
Fresh off its acquisition of Infrant Technologies, Netgear is unloading a bevy of new RAID NAS products, a host of small to mid-size business networking gear, and a newfound partnership with Avaya to provide VoIP to SMB customers. On the storage front, the four-bay ReadyNAS NV+ (desktop) and ReadyNAS 1100 (rackmount) devices support RAID 0/1/5 and X-RAID, automated backups and alerting, gigabit Ethernet, UPnP AV multimedia access, a number of USB ports, and room for up to four SATA drives. As for networking gear, the company is busting out its new WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch, WGL102 ProSafe 802.11g Light WAP, WAGL102 ProSafe Dual Band Light WAP, eight-port GS108T Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch, 24-port GS724TP Smart PoE Switch, and a monstrous 48-port GS748TP Smart PoE Switch to finish things off. As if that wasn't enough to digest, Netgear is also partnering up with Avaya to provide "an IP telephony solution for small businesses with 20 users or less." The newfangled lineups will be available at varying times and prices, so be sure to visit the read link for specifics on each individual model.[Via SmallNetBuilder]
maybe, just maybe, netgear should worry about their current customers, instead of pissing off new ones, and put out the Vista driver for the SC101 storage box. its been a long time since vista hit the streets and still no driver. just a thought....
Ha! How about any sort of Linux driver for it?
They say on the forums 'we won't release a driver to a community that has the resources to write one itself' *but* they then fail to release any API info that can be used.
It could have been so popular, too...
that's a heck of a lot o' letters and numbers, i personally like the waggle-102!!
Check out the logo! Who remembers eWorld?
Funny, Netgear was spun-off from Nortel. Now they partner with Avaya, which was spun off by Lucent.
Ironic how a lot of Large Datacomm companies spin off products that become more successful than their parent Nortel - Netgear, Lucent - Avaya, 3com - Palm (Jury's still out on the last one).