Name: Vigorswitch P1281x
Brand: DrayTek

Product Overview

Key Features & Benefits

IP Camera Management

Manage IP Cameras easily with detection and management of ONVIF cameras. Use PoE Device Check, auto-generated IP Camera topology and Camera Snapshots to detect & troubleshoot problems.

Benefits: Easily configure, deploy & manage connected IP Cameras.

High Speed 10 Gigabit SFP+ Uplinks

4 SFP+ ports allow your network to utilise 10Gbps ports to link Switches, Servers and Networked Storage with more bandwidth. This helps you reduce the risk of bottlenecks occurring in your network.

Benefits: Increase network throughput and meet demanding bandwidth requirements.

Great Security Features

Protect your network against unauthorised access and network problems with IP Conflict Prevention, IP Source Guard and Access Control List.

Benefits: Secure & control access to your network.

Smart Power over Ethernet

Provides ample power through Ethernet to each of the 24 PoE / PoE+ enabled Gigabit LAN ports. PoE scheduling, priority & Device Check features ensure your PoE devices are powered and working.

Benefits: Power and manage IP cameras, IP phones and Wireless APs.

Automatic VLAN Assignment

Voice, Surveillance and MAC VLANs dynamically assign VLANs to IP Phones, IP Cameras and more. Ensures the same network setup and Quality of Service regardless of where devices are plugged in.

Benefits: Less time to install, move ports around without reconfiguring VLANs.

Manage Centrally or Stand-Alone

Configure and monitor the switch through the VigorACS cloud management platform, DrayTek's Central Switch Management for Vigor routers, or directly via the device's Web Interface.

Benefits: Saves time and money. Easily provision, monitor and manage remote sites without on-site IT or dedicated staff.

VigorSwitch P1281x

VigorSwitch P1281x 24 Port GbE 4 Ports 10Gbps SFP+ Switch with PoE/PoE+

VigorSwitch P1281x is a smart switch with 24 x GbE PoE+ Ports (total of 140W output) and 4 additional independent SFP+ 10Gbps interfaces. Use the SFP+ interfaces for high-speed uplinks between switches, servers and network attached storage devices at up to 10Gbps per port.

Designed for centralised management, the VigorSwitch P1281x can be provisioned and monitored with the VigorACS management platform, the free VigorConnect single site management system or, with a DrayTek Vigor router’s Central Switch Management. Easily provision VLAN configuration through the router and clone switch configurations. Drastically reduce the setup time required for a complex network and configure an entire DrayTek network remotely.

PoE (Power over Ethernet)

Deliver power and data over one ethernet cable. Power up to 24 devices. Up to 30 watts per port.

Cloud Management

Manage the VigorSwitch P1282 from anywhere with VigorACS Cloud Management.

Dynamic MAC-based VLAN

Network port changes are easier to manage with MAC-based VLANs automating port re-configuration.

ONVIF IP Camera Management

Manage and view ONVIF capable cameras, automatically detecting their topology on the network.

Rack Mountable & Silent

Includes rack mount fittings to fit in any 19" rack with 1u height. Quiet in operation.

IP Conflict Prevention

Improve network stability by avoiding IP conflicts caused by a misconfigured or malicious host.

PoE Management

Schedule PoE device power. Monitor PoE device status, automatically restarting devices if they stop responding.

Central Site Management

Easily configure switches remotely with a DrayTek Vigor router or VigorConnect.

Surveillance & Voice Auto VLAN

Auto configures VLANs for IP cameras and IP phones, recognises traffic and manages QoS prioritization.

IP Camera Snapshot Alert

Locate IP Camera problems quickly with Mail Alerts from the switch showing the IP Camera's last snapshot.

QoS (Quality of Service)

Improve the performance of critical traffic by prioritizing the traffic with CoS, DSCP, and IP Precedence tag.

4 SFP+ 10Gb Ports for Uplinks

Uplink to Fiber or direct-attach to additional switches, with 4x 10 Gigabit SFP+ Ports.

10GbE SFP+ Ports for High Speed Uplinks

The DrayTek VigorSwitch P1281x has 4 dedicated SFP+ ports for uplinks, each operating at up to 10 Gigabits per second. The faster 10 Gigabit uplink capability allows you to make high bandwidth links to Network Attached Storage, Servers and other switches, to help reduce the risk of bottlenecks occurring within your network.

The SFP+ ports provide compatibility with your choice of SFP / SFP+ modules (not included) and therefore the most appropriate medium for your application.

Connect a passive Direct Attach SFP+ cable such as the DrayTek DAC-CX10-01M to the SFP+ module port of 1Gbps/10Gbps capable Network Attached Storage, Servers and Switches, for a cost effective, up to 10Gbps network link.

ONVIF IP Camera Management

The VigorSwitch P1281x can discover, manage and configure ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) compatible IP cameras and NVR systems, allowing for easy discovery, management and troubleshooting of your connected IP cameras.

Device Management

Use the VigorSwitch to configure and manage your IP camera network; configure network & security settings, restart cameras and have the switch monitor whether cameras are responding, alerting of any issues.

Network Surveillance Topology

Simply connect ONVIF capable devices to the VigorSwitch P1281x, Discover devices and the VigorSwitch determines the network topology of connected cameras & NVR systems.

ONVIF Camera Management - Topology view

View IP Camera Output

Through the VigorSwitch web interface, you can view the video feed of connected IP cameras:

ONVIF Camera Management - Camera Display

Rack Mountable & Silent

Install the VigorSwitch on a desk, shelf or wall, or use the included rack mount fittings to install the switch in any standard 19" rack with 1U height.

Ideal for installation in quiet office environments, the fanless design ensures noiseless operation .

Quality of Service & Bandwidth Control

Quality of Service

Prioritise mission-critical services such as Voice over IP and optimise traffic on your network with Quality of Service. 802.1p Class of Service allows the switch to identify essential traffic, moving it ahead in the queue at busy uplinks, ensuring that important data arrives on time when passing through the switch.

Auto Voice & Surveillance VLAN allow the switch to automatically assign VoIP Phones and IP Cameras to their specified VLAN and prioritise their traffic without manual port configuration.

Control and manage throughput per-port with Rate Limiting and application specific Traffic Shaping.

IP Conflict Prevention

DrayTek's IP Conflict Prevention system is an easy way to ensure that the switch protects against IP conflicts and ARP spoofing. Once configured, the switch monitors and notifies of IP conflicts, giving a visual reference of possible causes for network issues.

The IP Conflict Prevention wizard catalogues the current network layout, giving you the option to fix the IP address and MAC information for important network devices, such as Servers and Routers. If another device attempts to use the IP address, the switch and network will continue to communicate with the correct device instead of the unknown device.

Network Security and Management Features

Stay in control of what's connected to your network with the VigorSwitch Access Control List - to specifically allow or deny specified traffic types moving between ports, just like a Firewall.

Protect against network issues arising from connection of unwanted devices with IP Source Guard.

Feature	Description
Access Control List	Similar to a firewall, the ACL can control which packet types (IPv4, IPv6 & MAC) are allowed to pass between ports on the switch.
IGMP Snooping & Querying	Manage and control multicast IGMP traffic passing through the switch, with IGMP Snooping & Querying. With IGMP Snooping, the switch tracks IGMP traffic passing through its ports. Allowing it to limit the broadcast of multicast/IGMP packets to only the ports that have subscribed, improving overall network performance and avoiding excess network traffic. The VigorSwitch's IGMP Querier allows it to manage IGMP subscriptions on its network ports, checking which ports are members of which multicast group, if the network's router does not support multicast.
Link Aggregation - Port Trunking	Use two or more network links to connect the VigorSwitch P1281x and another switch / server. Traffic can be shared between the two ports, effectively doubling the bandwidth of the uplink and providing resilience should one of the links fail. Up to 8 ports can be added to a single Link Aggregation Group, with up to 8 LAGs. Interoperability with other types and manufacturer's equipment is handled by the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
Surveillance & Voice Auto VLAN	With Voice VLAN and Surveillance VLAN, the VigorSwith P1281x simplifies the setup of connected IP Phones and IP Cameras. Move around ports on the switch without having to manually re-configure VLAN and QoS settings each time, instead the switch will auto-assign VLAN tags and Quality of Service to IP Phones and IP Cameras, ensuring that each device remains on the correct network and that essential Voice and Video data is prioritised on the network. The switch identifies cameras and phones from their MAC address (Vendor OUI), so that when connecting up an IP Phone from Yealink for instance, the switch would configure the VLAN ID and set the QoS tag for that port. Moving the phone to a different port, the switch will ensure that the VLAN settings follow the device rather than requiring a fixed VLAN & QoS configuration per-port.
Dynamic MAC-based VLAN	Assign VLAN access to individual devices instead of ports with MAC-based VLAN, to ensure that devices are assigned to the correct network regardless of which switch port they're plugged into. With MAC-based VLAN, users can move around the office and make use of the same network resources and access through any port on the switch, without requiring manual re-configuration of VLAN settings on individual ports.

Power over Ethernet

The VigorSwitch P1281x is a 24-port PoE (Power over Ethernet) switch, providing power on all Ethernet ports to any PoE-enabled device, such as IP phones, wireless access points or IP cameras over the Ethernet cable.

As well as removing the need for local (at the desk) power supplies, making for tidier installations, PoE ensures power efficiency, providing only the power needed, as well as allowing for time schedules for powering up/down and remote rebooting.

Power is provided only when required and allows for installation of devices where there is no mains power, particularly useful for wireless access points such as the ceiling mounted VigorAP 1062C.

The VigorSwitch P1281x has 24 PoE+ Gigabit ports with a power budget of up to 140 watts for all connected PoE devices. The Ethernet interfaces are High-Power 802.3at PoE+ and regular PoE (802.3af) capable. Each can provide up to 30 watts per port.

Central Management

The DrayTek VigorSwitch P1281x can operate in standalone mode and be managed through its web interface or, if you need to manage and monitor the switch remotely, or have several DrayTek VigorSwitches to administer, you can centrally manage and monitor them either with:

Feature	Description
Router - Switch Management	A DrayTek router which supports switch management (connected directly to the switch)
DrayTek VigorACS	Manage and Provision DrayTek VigorSwitches on any network, from anywhere
DrayTek VigorConnect	Manage and Provision VigorSwitches and VigorAPs on a single site

Managing a VigorSwitch through VigorACS

DrayTek's VigorACS central management system provides a centralised way to manage and view the status of any DrayTek Vigor router, VigorAP access point and VigorSwitch connected to the VigorACS server.

DrayTek VigorSwitch switches that support TR-069 management can be managed through DrayTek VigorACS 3 in the same way that a DrayTek Vigor router or VigorAP access point would be managed. Through VigorACS, you can view and manage; a single VigorSwitch, all switches on a site or all switches across an entire network spanning multiple sites in one place.

DrayTek VigorSwitches connected to VigorACS connect directly to the VigorACS server to be managed, the router or network that they are connected to needs no additional configuration beyond the VigorSwitch having access to the Internet (or if your VigorACS server is located across a private WAN / VPN connection, access to that network).

Dashboard view

View the state of a VigorSwitch through the Dashboard, with PoE usage, uptime and connected ports all visible in one place:

Switch Configuration

View the configuration of a VigorSwitch and make changes to the configuration through VigorACS, then copy the settings from that switch to apply them to multiple VigorSwitch switches:

Central Switch Management with a DrayTek Vigor Router

DrayTek Vigor router Central Switch Management provisions and monitors VigorSwitch switches through a DrayTek Vigor router, with profiles that can be applied to multiple switches and VLAN configuration all handled within the router.

Central Switch Management requires firmware support on both the VigorSwitch and the DrayTek Vigor router

This can simplify the setup of multiple subnets and VLANs, without needing in-depth knowledge of VLAN tagging and reduces setup time, with the time consuming step of configuring VLANs for each port handled by the router instead.

Switch Hierarchy

The Switch Hierarchy view provides a visual overview of interconnections between DrayTek VigorSwitch switches with the devices connected to each LAN port:

Switch Management Profiles

Switch Management profiles can be used configure schedules to enable or disable ports (including PoE) and set bandwidth limits for the ports. Descriptive names can be configured on the router which can be seen from the Switch Hierarchy view:

VLAN configuration of a VigorSwitch can be provisioned from the DrayTek Vigor router, with the router automatically configuring the Uplink port and being aware of the VLAN tags that the Vigor router and the connected LAN port have available:

Energy Efficient Ethernet

The VigorSwitch P1281x supports Energy Efficient Ethernet, to lower the overall power usage of the switch when ports are idle or disconnected.

The IEEE 802.3az standard allows individual Ethernet links to enter a low power state, when not transmitting or not plugged in, drawing less energy than if the ports were to run at full speed at all times.

DrayTek VigorSwitch P1281x - Web Interface Screenshots

Dashboard

Dashboard view displays an overview of the VigorSwitch P1281x's port usage and port status:

IP Camera Management of ONVIF IP Cameras

Manage and view the video feed of automatically detected ONVIF IP Cameras connected to the VigorSwitch:

Managing and viewing ONVIF IP cameras through the VigorSwitch

Port Bandwidth Usage

Display live usage data of all ports on the switch, showing the quantity of data transmitted and received on each port, with the percentage displayed along with the port's speed:
i.e. 900mbps would be displayed as 90% usage for a 1Gpbs port
50mbps would be displayed as 50% usage for a 100Mbps port

DrayTek VigorSwitch Port Bandwidth Usage

Dynamic MAC table

View devices connected to each port from the Dynamic MAC table, which displays the known MAC address and their respective VLANs for each port on the switch:

Port Bandwidth Limits

Configure bandwidth limits for each LAN port, with Egress rates controlling a client's download speed from the switch and Ingress rates controlling a client's upload speed to the switch.

VLAN Configuration

Quickly create single or multiple VLAN groups. To create multiple VLANs at once, specify multiple VLAN tags separated by commas, or as a range of VLANs (i.e. 3-5 would create VLANs 3, 4 and 5):

Apply VLAN configurations to multiple ports:

Configuration of SFP+ 10Gbps ports

Set the speed and media type of the SFP+ modules connected to the switch's four SFP+ ports.