Consider a vendor with a large family of switch products if you know you'll be expanding your networks again. Buy a managed switch if you need to monitor and report on hubs, bridges, routers and other switches on the network. Plan carefully before making network moves and changes. The software most often combines Simple Network Management Protocol and Remote Monitoring network management standards, with their own network management flavors and a little Web-based management tossed in. Simply adding users to a switch or connecting your switch to a network backbone switch is one way to scale your network upward.
Rackmountable switches are more easily scalable than standalone desktop switches.
But the company's standalone Express 410T and 510T models listed here don't offer this feature. A VLAN is a group of network resources or users on different network segments that communicate as if they were on the same wire. Users can be linked by media access control addresses, IP addresses, network protocols or even the port numbers of a LAN switch into a virtual grouping that can share network resources and bandwidth. VLANs are tied to Layer 2 technology, however, and as Layer 3 switches providing full Gigabit Ethernet wire-speed routing enter the market, they may disappear. Diagnostic port LEDs.