User's Manual

EATURES

AND

ENEFITS

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Features and Benefits

Connectivity

◆ 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports for easy Fast Ethernet integration and

for protection of your investment in legacy LAN equipment

◆ Four Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver slots that are

shared with four of the 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet ports

◆ 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

◆ Independent RJ-45 10/100/1000BASE-T ports with support for auto

MDI/MDI-X

◆ Unshielded (UTP) cable supported on all RJ-45 ports: Category 3, 4 or

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

Category 5 or 5e for 1000 Mbps connections

◆ IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, and IEEE 802.3ab compliant

◆ Up to 32K-entry, media access control (MAC) address cache

◆ IEEE 802.1Q based tagged VLAN

◆ IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) through four priority queues for

each port

◆ IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation: up to six aggregated trunks per switch