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The Summit family of switches is comprised of six models, as follows:

• Summit1

• Summit2

• Summit3

• Summit4

• Summit4/FX

• Summit48

UMMARY

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Summit switches support the following features:

• Fully nonblocking operation

— All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed

• Optional redundant power supply

• 128K addresses in the switch forwarding database in bridging mode

• Redundant physical Gigabit Ethernet backbone connection

• Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation (Fast Ethernet ports, only)

• Load-sharing on multiple ports

• Virtual local area networks (VLANs) including support for 802.1Q

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains

• Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)

• Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing

• IP Multinetting using the Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP)

• DHCP/BOOTP Relay

• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2

• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol

• Wire-speed IP multicast routing support

• IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic

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