They track more than traffic.  They also track errors, types of errors, and 
traffic statistics are often broken down into different packet sizes. 

 VLANs are another reason to need a managed switch.

On November 16, 2015 9:20:28 AM PST, wes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> One member of the family that owns the plant also owns some sort of a
>> business computing consulting or services company. He wishes that I
>had
>> used a managed switch so he could know how busy my network was and I
>> don't know what else a managed switch would tell him.
>>
>>
>A managed switch offers tracking of the traffic on each port,
>accessible
>via SNMP so you can easily create graphs and such.
>
>-wes
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