A new array of NetVanta® switches designed to address a variety of SMB applications and provide a wealth of new benefits including higher density, Gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE), power conservation, wireless controller capabilities and a new limited lifetime warranty has been announced today by a leading supplier of voice and data solutions for the Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) market, ADTRAN® , Inc. As they embrace architectures such as Gigabit-to-the-Desktop and Voice over IP (VoIP), these solutions are designed to address the need for value-driven, business-class solutions in the SMB market and to provide a means for SMBs to both upgrade and future-proof their Local Area Networks (LANs).

Principal analyst Networking and Communication Equipment, Gartner, Naresh Singh, says: “In an Internet economy, the competition is not just the business down the street or across town, but anyone selling similar products or services online.” He continued: “As a result, SMBs are being driven to become more enterprise-like in their network architectures, while remaining on an SMB budget.”

Uniquely addressing the needs of the value-driven SMB by providing a reliable, easy-to-use, business-class product at an SMB-friendly price point, ADTRAN's NetVanta family of voice and data networking solutions was designed specifically for this market and. ADTRAN is introducing six new platforms to the award-winning NetVanta family of switching solutions. While preparing SMB networks for future growth, these solutions ease the transition to next-generation applications.

The new platforms include:

    * The NetVanta 1534 PoE
    * The NetVanta 1534
    * The NetVanta 1238 PoE
    * The NetVanta 1238
    * The NetVanta 1234 PoE
    * The NetVanta 1234