{"id":108976,"date":"2026-04-09T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildit.im\/store\/index.php\/product\/draytek-vsp2542x-k-54-port-switch-with-48-poe-rj-45-lan-ports-6-10gbpe-sfp-400w-poe-budget-and-l2-management-2-year-warranty\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:42:16","slug":"draytek-vsp2542x-k-54-port-switch-with-48-poe-rj-45-lan-ports-6-10gbpe-sfp-400w-poe-budget-and-l2-management-2-year-warranty","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/buildit.im\/store\/index.php\/product\/draytek-vsp2542x-k-54-port-switch-with-48-poe-rj-45-lan-ports-6-10gbpe-sfp-400w-poe-budget-and-l2-management-2-year-warranty\/","title":{"rendered":"Draytek VSP2542X-K 54 Port switch with 48 PoE+ RJ-45 LAN ports, 6 10Gbpe SFP+, 400W PoE budget, and L2+ management, 2 Year Warranty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DrayTek VigorSwitch P542x<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Product Overview<\/b><br \/>VigorSwitch P2542x is a L2+ managed switch, with a plethora of management options and enterprise-level feature to  improve network stability and security for businesses including stacking, and power backup input. It comes with 48 RJ-45  LAN ports, 6 10Gbps SFP+ slots, and Layer 3 capabilities, including DHCP server, static routes, and VLANs. The switch is also  equipped with advanced management features, including ONVIF support, QoS prioritization, and remote monitoring, making  it ideal for use in small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise environments. Our cutting-edge and versatile networking switch with power redundancy options allows seamless operation and minimised  downtime and comes equipped with both DC and AC power options, to cater to your unique power requirements.<\/p>\n<p><B>Key Features &#038; Benefits<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>High Speed 10 Gigabit SFP+ Uplinks<\/b><br \/>6 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.<br \/>Benefits: Easily increase network throughput and meet demanding bandwidth requirements.<\/p>\n<p><b>Advanced Layer 2+ Routing  Features<\/b><br \/>Expand your network with support for Layer 3 features  such as Static Routes and VLAN Routing, to connect  separate networks through the VigorSwitch.<br \/>Benefits: Provides a fast and secure bridge between networks<\/p>\n<p><B>Manage Centrally or Stand-Alone<\/b><br \/>Configure and monitor the switch through the VigorACS cloud management platform, DrayTek\u2019s Central Switch Management for Vigor routers, or directly via the device\u2019s Web Interface.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits: Saves time and money. Easily provision, monitor and manage remote sites without on-site IT or dedicated staff. <\/p>\n<p><b>Auto Surveillance &#038; Voice VLAN<\/b><br \/>Recognise business-critical traffic from IP cameras and IP phones automatically and use CoS tag for QoS  prioritization.<br \/>Benefits: Improved scalability and network efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><b>Great Security Features<\/b><br \/>Protect your network against unauthorised access and network problems with 802.1X port authentication, IP Conflict Prevention, DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Access Control List. <br \/>Benefits: Secure &#038; control access to your network.<\/p>\n<p><b>ONVIF IP Camera Surveillance Management<\/b><br \/>Make IP camera management easier with detection and management of ONVIF cameras. View a topology of all cameras connected. Use PoE Device Check and Camera Snapshot Email Alerts to rapidly detect &#038; troubleshoot problems<br \/>Benefits: Easily configure, deploy &#038; manage connected IP Cameras.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key Specification<\/b><br \/>48 x RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet Ports<br \/>6 x SFP+ 10GbE Ports for Uplink \/ Fibre<br \/>802.1q VLANs with Dynamic MAC-based, Voice &#038; Surveillance VLAN<br \/>VLAN Routing &#038; Static Route with DHCP server \/ relay<br \/>Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol*<br \/>QoS for Application traffic prioritisation<br \/>802.1x RADIUS \/ TACACS+ Port Authentication with Accounting<br \/>Voice VLAN for QoS (OUI Mode)<br \/>Access Control List (ACL)<br \/>Port Mirroring &#038; Link Aggregation<br \/>IGMP Snooping &#038; Querying<br \/>IPv4 and IPv6 Support with IP Conflict Prevention<br \/>Hardware Monitor<br \/>Centrally managed or standalone operation<br \/>Console Port<\/p>\n<p><B>Technical Specification (UK Hardware Spec.)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Physical Interfaces<\/b><br \/>48 RJ-45 Ethernet Ports \u2013 10\/100\/1000Mbps<br \/>6 SFP+ Ports \u2013 1000Mbps\/10Gbps<br \/>Console Port (RJ-45 physical, RS-232 electrical)<br \/>Factory Reset Button<br \/>Stacking Scan Button \u2013 New!<br \/>AC Power Socket<br \/>DC Backup Power Input \u2013 New!<\/p>\n<p><b>PoE Specification<\/b><br \/>48-ports 802.3af &#038; 802.3at (High Power) PoE PSE<br \/>400 Watts Total Power Budget for PoE<br \/>Up to 30 watts per port<br \/>Auto Detection of Powered Device (PD) and Consumption <br \/>Levels<br \/>Per Port PoE Status LED Indicators<br \/>Alert LED for high PoE Usage<br \/>Port Power Consumption Monitoring via Web Interface &#038; CLI<br \/>Circuit Protection to Prevent Power Interference between Ports<br \/>PoE PD Monitoring &#038; Maintenance Features (per port) <br \/>\u2013 Scheduling<br \/>\u2013 PoE PD Priority<br \/>\u2013 Restart PoE PD if not responding to ping<br \/>\u2013 Restart PoE IP Camera if not providing camera output<\/p>\n<p><b>VLAN<\/b><br \/>802.1q Tag-based VLAN<br \/>Port-based and MAC-based VLANs<br \/>QinQ (Basic)<br \/>GVRP \u2013 General VLAN Registration Protocol<br \/>Up to 256 VLANs (out of 4096 VLAN IDs)<br \/>802.1v Protocol-Based VLAN<br \/>Voice VLAN (OUI Mode)<br \/>Surveillance VLAN (OUI Mode)<br \/>Protocol VLAN<br \/>MAC-based VLAN<br \/>Management VLAN<br \/>Port Isolation<\/p>\n<p><b>QoS<\/b><br \/>Support 8 priority queues<br \/>Port-Based rate control (Ingress &#038; Egress)<br \/>Priority queue schedule (WRR or Strict Priority)<br \/>Rate Limit<br \/>Class of Service <br \/>\u2013 802.1p CoS<br \/>\u2013 DSCP<br \/>\u2013 CoS-DSCP<br \/>\u2013 IP Precedence ToS<\/p>\n<p><b>Network Security<\/b><br \/>IP Source Guard with ARP inspection<br \/>Storm Control (Broadcast, Unknown Multicast, Unknown Unicast)<br \/>DoS Attack protection<br \/>AAA Authentication<br \/>MAC Authentication<br \/>Protected Port \/ Port Isolation<br \/>Static Port Security<br \/>Dynamic ARP Inspection<br \/>DHCP Snooping with Option 82<br \/>Loop Detection &#038; Prevention<br \/>Access Control Lists (ACL) <br \/>\u2013 Up to 512 ACL Entries<br \/>\u2013 Source and destination MAC<br \/>\u2013 VLAN ID<br \/>\u2013 IPv4\/v6 address<br \/>\u2013 Protocol<br \/>\u2013 TCP\/UDP port<\/p>\n<p><b>Spanning Tree<\/b><br \/>Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)<br \/>Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)<br \/>Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)<\/p>\n<p><b>Link Aggregation<\/b><br \/>Combine multiple ports to increase bandwidth<br \/>8 Aggregation Groups<br \/>Up to 8 ports in each group<br \/>LACP or Static setup<br \/>Supports traffic load balancing<\/p>\n<p><b>Networking Performance<\/b><br \/>Switching Capacity: 216Gbps<br \/>Forwarding Rate: 160.7Mpps at 64 bytes<br \/>MAC Addresses Supported: 32,000<br \/>Jumbo Frames up to 12KB<br \/>Packet Buffer size: 16Mbit<br \/>Layer 3 Routing Table<\/p>\n<p><b>Multicast<\/b><br \/>Up to 256 multicast groups<br \/>Multicast Group Filtering \/ Throttling<br \/>GMP Snooping V2\/V3 (BISS)<br \/>IGMP V2\/V3 Querier<br \/>Multicast VLAN registration<br \/>MLD Snooping V1\/V2 <br \/>\u2013 Immediate Leave<br \/>\u2013 Report Suppression<br \/>\u2013 IGMP\/MLD Querier<\/p>\n<p><b>AAA<\/b><br \/>RADIUS \/ TACACS+ Authentication for Management<br \/>Multiple AAA Server<br \/>MAC \/ Inaccessible Authentication bypass<br \/>RADIUS Authentication 802.1X<br \/>\u2013 Accounting<br \/>\u2013 Guest VLAN<br \/>\u2013 Port based Authorisation <br \/>   802.1X Single\/Multi<br \/>   MAC-based<br \/>   Web-based<br \/>\u2013 Attribute Assignment <br \/>   User Privilege<br \/>   VLAN<br \/>TACACS+ Authentication <br \/>\u2013 Port Authorisation<br \/>\u2013 Accounting<\/p>\n<p><b>ONVIF Surveillance Management<\/b><br \/>Discovery of ONVIF-compliant IP Cameras<br \/>Surveillance Topology<br \/>Real-Time Video Streaming<br \/>ONVIF Device Maintenance <br \/>\u2013 Device Information<br \/>\u2013 Network Settings Configuration<br \/>\u2013 Time Settings<br \/>\u2013 Reboot<br \/>\u2013 Reset to Factory Default Settings<br \/>\u2013 Ping Check with Mail Alert on disconnection<\/p>\n<p><b>Management<\/b><br \/>Central Management <br \/>\u2013 VigorACS<br \/>\u2013 VigorConnect<br \/>\u2013 Vigor Router Switch Management (requires router firmware <br \/>support)<br \/>Running\/Startup\/Backup Configuration<br \/>sFlow<br \/>IPv4 &#038; IPv6 Dual-Stack<br \/>LLDP(802.1ab) + MED<br \/>Web User Interface (HTTP or HTTPS)<br \/>Firmware Upgrade\/Backup by HTTP\/HTTPS<br \/>HTTP (Non-TLS) can be disabled for increased security<br \/>Configuration Backup\/Restore<br \/>Factory Default<br \/>System Reboot<br \/>Dual Firmware Image (Active &#038; Backup Firmware)<br \/>Command Line Interface (CLI) via SSH\/Telnet<br \/>Console Port (RJ45) for CLI management<br \/>OpenVPN Client with Certificate-based auth<br \/>SNMP v1, v2c, v3 (with Generic Traps)<br \/>RMON Groups 1, 2, 3, 9 (History, Statistics, Alarms, Events)<br \/>SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol)<\/p>\n<p><b>Diagnostics<\/b><br \/>Port Status &#038; Usage display<br \/>CPU\/RAM Usage display<br \/>MAC Address Table<br \/>Device Check<br \/>Syslog<br \/>Mail Alert <br \/>\u2013 Port Status<br \/>\u2013 Port Speed Change<br \/>\u2013 System Restart<br \/>\u2013 Device Check<br \/>\u2013 IP Conflict<br \/>\u2013 ONVIF IP Camera Snapshot<br \/>Port Mirroring<br \/>Ping Diagnostics<br \/>Port-based Cable Test<\/p>\n<p><b>Hardware Monitor<\/b><br \/>Remote Monitoring through Web Interface &#038; VigorACS<br \/>Hardware Monitor Data Recording &#038; Graphing<br \/>Email &#038; LED alert on Fan failure, voltage high\/low and overheat<br \/>Temperature Monitoring<br \/>Voltage Monitoring<br \/>Smart Fan Control for low noise operation<br \/>Power Saving Mode<\/p>\n<p><b>Layer 3 Networking Features<\/b><br \/>Static Route<br \/>VLAN Routing<br \/>Virtual Router Redundancy (VRRP) Protocol<\/p>\n<p><b>IPv4 Features<\/b><br \/>DHCP Client<br \/>DNS Client<br \/>DHCP Server<br \/>\u2013 Option 82, 66, 67<br \/>\u2013 DHCP Relay<br \/>\u2013 DHCP Snooping<br \/>\u2013 DHCP IP Source Guard<\/p>\n<p><b>IPv6 Features<\/b><br \/>Auto Configuration<br \/>Static IPv6 Address &#038; Prefix Length<br \/>Static IPv6 Default Gateway<br \/>IPv6 Neighbour Discovery (ND)<br \/>IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection<br \/>ICMPv6<br \/>DHCPv6 Client<\/p>\n<p><b>General IEEE Standards Compliance<\/b><br \/>802.3 10Base-T<br \/>802.3u 100Base-T<br \/>802.3ab 1000Base-T<br \/>802.3ae 10GBase-T<br \/>802.3x Flow Control Capability<br \/>802.3 Auto-negotiation<br \/>802.3ad Port trunk with LACP<br \/>802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet<br \/>802.1q VLAN<br \/>802.1p Class of Service<br \/>802.1d Spanning Tree<br \/>802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree<br \/>802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree<br \/>802.1x Port Based Network Access Control<br \/>802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)<br \/>802.1ad QinQ<\/p>\n<p><b>Operating Requirements<\/b><br \/>Operating Requirements<br \/>Power Input Requirements: 100-240VAC @ 0.7A<br \/>Backup Power Input: DC 12V @ 4.8A<br \/>Power supply: Internal<br \/>Maximum Input Power Consumption: 64.2 Watts<br \/>Cooling: Smart Fan<br \/>Operating Temperature: 0 \u00b0C to 50 \u00b0C<br \/>Storage Temperature: -20 \u00b0C to 70 \u00b0C<br \/>Operating Humidity: 10% to 90% RH (non-condensing)<br \/>Storage Humidity: 5% to 90% RH (non-condensing)<\/p>\n<p><b>Physical Specifications<\/b><br \/>Dimensions: 440 x 281 x 44 mm (W x D x H)<br \/>Rack mountable: 1U<br \/>Weight: 3.95 kg (excluding SFP modules\/cables)<br \/>Brackets included for rack or wall mounting<\/p>\n<p><b> Others<\/b><br \/>ROHS &#038; 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