Clarification on Web Management vs Smart Management

na51hog

Hi,

A little background.

I am a home user and retired IT professional living in the UK.  My home network currently consists of about 100 clients - a mix of servers, desktop pcs, mobiles and IoT devices, a primary router and 3 APs together with 20 unmanaged switches from TP-Link and Netgear ranging in capacity from 4 to 16 ports.  The primary Asus router connects to a Virgin Media cable modem. 

After a recent network issue that took me a couple of days to track down, I would like to consolidate my switches to fewer managed devices.   The product descriptions for Zyxel managed switches seem to refer to either Web Management or Smart Management.  Is Web Management a legacy term?  I couldn't find anything on the Zyxel website, or through Google, to help me understand what, if anything, differentiates the two terms.  My needs probably don't extend to a unifying management platform, but simply to sweat my network a little better and to troubleshoot more efficiently.

Any help, advice or links to supporting smart/web management documentation to help inform my purchasing choices would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

  

Zyxel_Derrick

Hi na51hog

Web managed switch is for SOHO and it has fewer functions than Smart managed switch.
On the contrary, Smart managed switch is for business unit and it has more functions than Web managed switch.
Therefore, you can depend on the function you need to choose which one can fit your requirement.
For more information, you can visit our official website: 
https://www.zyxel.com/products_services/smb-switches.shtml?t=c
Or, you can ask question in our biz forum:
https://businessforum.zyxel.com/categories/switch
Hope it helps

Best regards,
Zyxel_Derrick