Table 2. LEDs on the back panel (Continued)
Description
LED
Off. No link is established.
Solid green. A valid 1 Gbps link is established.
Blinking green. The port is transmitting or receiving packets at 1 Gbps.
Solid amber. A valid 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps link is established.
Blinking amber. The port is transmitting or receiving packets at 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps.
RJ-45 left LED
Link, speed, and activity for
Ethernet ports 1 to 8
Off. The port is not delivering PoE power.
Solid green. The port is delivering PoE power.
Solid amber. A PoE fault occurred.
RJ-45 right LED
PoE status for Ethernet ports
1 to 8
Off. No SFP module link is established.
Solid green. A valid 1 Gbps link is established.
Blinking green. The SFP fiber port is transmitting or receiving packets at 1 Gbps.
Link/ACT LED
Link and activity for SFP fiber
ports 9 and 10
Table 3. LEDs on the front panel
Description
LED
Solid blue. The switch is connected to the cloud server and is set up to be managed by
the NETGEAR Insight app.
Off. The switch is not connected to the cloud server or is set up to be managed by the
local browser interface.
Cloud Connection LED
Solid green. The switch is powered on.
Solid amber. The switch is booting.
Off. Power is not supplied to the switch.
Power LED
Switch Hardware Interfaces
The following sections describe the hardware interfaces on the switch.
RJ-45 Ports for 10/100/1000M BASE-T Ethernet Connectivity
All RJ-45 copper ports support autosensing. When you insert a cable into an RJ-45 port, the switch
automatically ascertains the maximum speed (10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps) and duplex mode (half-duplex
or full-duplex) of the attached device. All ports support a Category 5e (Cat 5e) cable (or higher-rated Ethernet
cable) terminated with an 8-pin RJ-45 connector.
To simplify the procedure for attaching devices, all RJ-45 ports support Auto Uplink technology. This
technology allows attaching devices to the RJ-45 ports with either straight-through or crossover cables.
Hardware Overview
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Insight Managed 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Cloud Switch with 2 SFP Fiber Ports
