User manual

VOLKTEK NSH-580 MANAGED 24-PORT 10/100 + 4 G COMBO L3 SWITCH

1 About This Guide

1.1 Welcome

Congratulations on choosing the NSH-580 Managed 24-port 10/100Base-TX + 4-port

Gigabit Combo Layer 3 Access Switch. The NSH-580 is a high-performance managed

SNMP Layer 3 switch that provides users with twenty four 10/100Mbps Ethernet and 4

Gigabit Combo ports with both SFP slot and RJ-45. The Web/SNMP management

provides remote control capability that provides flexible network management and

monitoring options. Whether managed via an "in-band" SNMP management station, an

internet web browser, or via an "out-of-band" RS-232 console port, the NSH-580

facilitates network operational control and diagnostics.

For increased bandwidth applications, the NSH-580 can accommodate trunk groups with

a maximum of 8 ports in each trunk.

Moreover, these trunk ports are with fair-over function to provide redundant backup if

one or more of the ports are malfunctioning. It also supports both port-based VLAN and

tag-based VLAN, thereby simplifying network traffic segmentation, broadcast domain

extension and other associated benefits of VLANs.

This abundance of features together with Layer 3 routing functions translate into

increased efficiency and performance in network administration.

1.2 Purpose

This guide discusses how to install and configure your Managed Layer 3 Access Switch.

1.3 Terms/Usage

In this guide, the term “Switch” (first letter upper case) refers to the NSH-580 Switch, and

“switch” (first letter lower case) refers to other switches.

1.4 Features

z 24-port 10/100 plus a choice of 4 Gigabit copper or fiber ports

z Supports per-port Egress/Ingress rate control

z Supports 802.3x flow control for Full-duplex mode and collision-based

backpressure for half-duplex mode

z Provides trunk groups of up to 8 member ports per trunk

z Broadcast storm prevention

z Supports jumbo frames of up to 9216 bytes

z QoS with 8 Priority Queues

z Embedded 16K MAC address

z Supports STP, RSTP, MSTP

z Tagged VLAN 802.1q with 802.1p up to 4K VLANs