Installation guide

Features and Benefits

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Features and Benefits

Connectivity

• 8 10/100/1000 Mbps ports for easy Gigabit Ethernet integration and for protection

of your investment in legacy LAN equipment.

• All RJ-45 ports support IEEE 802.3af standard Power-over-Ethernet

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

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

Expandability

• One Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceiver slot (shared with Port 8)

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

Performance

• Transparent bridging.

• Provides store-and-forward switching

• Jumbo-Frame up to 9.6 Kbytes

• Supports flow control

• Broadcast storm control

Management

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

• Network management agent

• Manages switch in-band

• Supports web-based interface