Installation Guide

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• 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 5, 5e or 6 for 1000 Mbps connections.

• IEEE 802.3-2002 Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet compliance

ensures compatibility with standards-based hubs, network cards and

switches from any vendor.

• Provides stacking capability via RJ-45 ports with 4 Gbps stacking

bandwidth. Up to 4 units can be stacked together.

• The SMC6248M can also be stacked together with the SMC6224M

24-port switch. When combining these switches in the same stack, up to

4 units can be stacked together .

Expandability

• Supports 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, and 1000BASE-ZX SFP

transceivers.

Performance

• Transparent bridging

• Aggregate duplex bandwidth of up to 17.6 Gbps

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

• Provides store-and-forward switching

• Wire-speed filtering and forwarding

• Supports flow control, using back pressure for half duplex and IEEE

802.3x for full duplex

• Broadcast storm control