The NETGEAR M4300 Switch Series delivers L2/L3/L4 and IPv4/IPv6 rich services for enterprise edge and SMB aggregation deployments with unrivaled ease of use: 10 Gigabit models can seamlessly stack with 1 Gigabit models within the series. Non-stop forwarding virtual chassis architectures provide advanced High Availability (HA) with hitless failover, that is, distributed link aggregation allows for load balancing and virtually zero downtime. License-free L3 feature set includes static routing, policy-based routing, RIP, VRRP, OSpiv as well as Multicast PIM routing. The NETGEAR M4300 Switch Series is ready for the future, with Software-defined Network (SDN) and OpenFlow 1.3 enabled for your network. M4300-12X12F comes with 12 ports 10GBASE-T and 12 ports 10GBASE-X SFP+ in a half-width form factor. All 24 ports are independent and 1G backward compatible for progressive transition to 10G speeds. Ideal for server and storage aggregation: two half-width M4300 switches can be installed in a single rack space. M4300-12X12F is line-rate with 480Gbps fabric for SMB core applications as well as spine and leaf stacking architectures.