Quick Start Manual

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
The NETGEAR
™
Model GS504T 4-Port Copper Gigabit Switch provides you with a
low-cost,high-performance network solution and is designed to anchor and intercon-
nect 100/1000 megabits per second (Mbps) workgroups using copper Gigabit links.
Features
The Model GS504T switch has the following key features:
• Four full-duplex copper Gigabit ports with standard RJ-45 connectors
• Automatic address learning function to build the packet-forwarding
information table
The table contains up to 8,000 media access control (MAC) addresses (that is,
the switch can support networks with as many as 8,000 devices).
• Full-duplex mode to double throughput of point-to-point connections by letting
individual ports transmit and receive concurrently when the other end also sup-
ports full-duplex mode
• Wire-speed filtering and forwarding of the traffic with no delay
• Store-and-forward intelligent processing to minimize erroneous packets on the
network
• Easy Plug and Play installation with no software to configure, which saves time
and minimizes the potential for configuration errors
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