Installation guide

Introduction

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Features and Benefits

Connectivity

• 24 10/100/1000 Mbps ports for easy Gigabit Ethernet integration and for protection

of your investment in legacy LAN equipment.

• Auto-negotiation enables each RJ-45 port to automatically select the optimum

communication mode (half or full duplex) if this feature is supported by the

attached device; otherwise the port can be configured manually.

• RJ-45 10/100/1000BASE-T ports support auto MDI/MDI-X pinout selection.

• Unshielded (UTP) cable supported on all RJ-45 ports: Category 3 or better for

10 Mbps connections, Category 5 or better for 100 Mbps connections, and

Category Category 5, 5e, 6 or better for 1000 Mbps connections.

• IEEE 802.3-2005 Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and IEEE 802.3ae

10 Gigabit Ethernet compliance ensures compatibility with standards-based hubs,

network cards and switches from any vendor.

• Provides stacking capability via high-speed serial ports with 48 Gbps stacking

bandwidth. Up to 8 units can be stacked together.

Expandability

• Supports 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, and 1000BASE-LH SFP transceivers.

• Optional 10GBASE single-port expansion module with an XFP transceiver slot.

Performance

• Transparent bridging.

• Aggregate duplex bandwidth of up to 128 Gbps.

• Switching table with a total of 8K MAC address entries

• Provides store-and-forward switching.

• Supports wire-speed switching at layer 2.

• Broadcast storm control.

Management

• “At-a-glance” LEDs for easy troubleshooting

• Network management agent:

- Manages switch (or entire stack) in-band or out-of-band

- Supports console, Telnet, SSH, SNMP v1/v2c/v3, RMON (4 groups) and

web-based interface

• Slave units provide backup stack management.

Note: Stack function is not supported with this product.