Installation guide

Switch Hardware
Application Control Module (ACM)
ARX®1000 Hardware Installation Guide 3-3
• Port mirroring and debugging
• MAC address assignment for Ethernet ports
• Real-time clock synchronization for user interfaces
• Switch health status and statistics monitoring and management through LEDs
and software
• Temperature and power monitoring
Adaptive Services
The ACM module provides the core distributed filer functions for the switch,
including:
• Virtual distribution of front-end file services for NFS v 2/3 and CIFS protocols
• Volume management and filer capabilities
• Back-end network-attached storage (NAS) aggregation
Network Services
The ACM supports the following network services:
• Two 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet ports (small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
optical connectors)
• Four 100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports (RJ-45 connectors)
• Auto-negotiation for 100/1000 Ethernet transmission
• Standard Ethernet and jumbo-frame (9K) packet sizes
• Full-duplex switching at line rates for Layer 2 processing
• Low latency, store and forward switching, with built-in multicast support
• Load balancing and resource switching
• Network File System (NFS) Fast Path