Take control of your local area network to streamline performance, protect your data and reduce expensive downtime. Whilst an unmanaged switch is fine for connecting a few PCs and laptops in a home environment, it is not appropriate for use in a company network with many PCs and servers. For these environments a managed switch is essential to give the required levels of control, network performance, security and reliability. Modern managed switches can provide all these functions using standard techniques such as VLANs, Port Trunking, security, prioritization, filtering and SNMP network management.