Force Media, an official distributor of QNAP, has started selling the ultra-high-speed 25GbE fiber managed switch "QSW-M5216-1T" as a new model of network equipment. QSW-M5216-1T is an ultra-high-speed switch with 16 25GbE SFP28 fiber ports and 1 10GBASE-T port. It supports layer 2 management via a user-friendly web user interface, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to deploy ultra-fast backbone networks to accelerate storage, virtualization and AI applications. It also provides 820Gbps of backbone switching capacity and serves as a core switch uplink to 25GbE/100GbE servers and NAS in the server room. Five network speeds (10Gbps, 5Gbps, 2.5Gbps, 1Gbps, 100Mbps) with 25GbE SFP28 fiber ports backward compatible with 10GbE SFP+, 1GbE SFP and 10GbE RJ45 ports compliant with multi-gigabit NBASE-T technology to support It supports Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and allows easy and efficient deployment of small and medium-sized networks that support scalability, redundancy, and loop avoidance. In addition, it complies with IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet, IEEE802.3x flow control in full-duplex mode to avoid packet loss from unequal bandwidth and reduce power consumption during low speed or non-operation .
