DGS-1210-10P Smart Managed PoE Switch

Overview

The D-Link DGS-1210-10P is a compact, fanless Smart Managed Gigabit switch designed for small and medium-sized businesses in Kenya. It delivers enterprise-grade features with silent operation, making it perfect for office environments, retail spaces, and professional settings.

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Port Configuration

• 8 x 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit PoE/PoE+ ports
• 2 x SFP ports for fiber uplinks
• 65W total PoE power budget
• Supports 802.3af and 802.3at standards
• Auto MDI/MDIX on all twisted-pair ports

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Performance Specifications

Specification	Detail
Switching Capacity	20 Gbps
PoE Power Budget	65W
VLAN Groups	256
Jumbo Frame Support	Up to 10,000 bytes
MAC Address Table	16,000 entries
Packet Buffer Memory	3.0 MB
Cooling	Fanless (Silent Operation)
Dimensions	280 x 126 x 44 mm
Installation	Desktop or Rackmount

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Key Features

🔌 Power over Ethernet

• 65W PoE budget across 8 ports
• Supports both 802.3af (15.4W) and 802.3at (30W)
• Time-based PoE scheduling (turn ports on/off by schedule)
• Individual port PoE control
• PoE status monitoring per port

What You Can Power:

• ✅ 8x VoIP phones (7-10W each)
• ✅ 4x IP cameras (15W each)
• ✅ 2-3x WiFi Access Points (15-25W each)
• ✅ Mixed deployment: phones + cameras + APs

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🌐 VLAN & Traffic Management

• 256 static VLAN groups (802.1Q)
• Auto Voice VLAN – Automatically prioritizes VoIP traffic
• Auto Surveillance VLAN – Segregates IP camera traffic
• Asymmetric VLAN support
• VLAN ID range: 1-4094

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🛡️ Security Features

• 802.1X port-based authentication with RADIUS
• DHCP Snooping – Prevents rogue DHCP servers
• DHCP Screening – Filters unauthorized DHCP responses
• Storm Control – Protects against broadcast/multicast/unicast flooding
• D-Link Safeguard Engine – CPU protection
• Port Security – Up to 64 MAC addresses per port
• ARP Spoofing Prevention
• Access Control Lists (ACL) – Traffic filtering based on MAC, IP, VLAN
• SSH v2 and SSL encryption
• Traffic segmentation

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🎯 Quality of Service (QoS)

• 8 priority queues per port (802.1p)
• DSCP and ToS marking support
• IPv6 Traffic Class support
• Queue Handling:
  • Strict Priority
  • Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
• Port-based bandwidth control (Ingress/Egress)
• TCP/UDP port-based prioritization

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🔧 Layer 2+ Features

• Spanning Tree Protocol:
  • 802.1D STP
  • 802.1W RSTP
• Link Aggregation (LACP):
  • Maximum 5 groups
  • Up to 8 ports per group
• IGMP Snooping v1/v2:
  • 256 multicast groups
  • Per-VLAN support
  • IGMP Querier support
• MLD Snooping v1/v2 (256 groups)
• Port Mirroring:
  • One-to-one
  • Many-to-one
  • Tx/Rx/Both directions
• Loopback Detection – Auto-disables ports with loops
• Cable Diagnostics – Tests cable quality and detects errors
• LLDP and LLDP-MED
• Layer 2+ Static Routing – Basic IP routing capabilities