Product Description

This layer 2 switch delivers high performance, scalability, and availability for your LAN access network.

The dual-media ports can be used either as a normal UTP Ethernet port or adapted to 100- or 1000-Mbps fiber with an SFP. Ideal for mixed-speed and legacy-integration environments, the switch enables you to connect twisted-pair Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet segments to devices on other ports or to a fiber optic backbone plugged into the switches' SFP slots.

You can also bundle multiple ports to create a single high-bandwidth port using 802.3ad LACP aggregation. Combine Gigabit ports, for instance, to create a multilink trunk for load sharing. It is especially beneficial in switch-to-switch cascading applications where you require higher full-duplex speeds. Broadcast/multicast/unicast storm control enables you to restrict excess traffic on your network.

IGMP (v1/v2/v3) for limiting bandwidth-heavy multicast traffic. What's more, it has IPv6 support for newer networking equipment (delivering IPv6 multicast packets only to the required receivers). You can also control the rate limit for each switch port and set threshold values for the size of discarded packets. Jumbo frame support on the Gigabit interfaces helps to ensure reliable data transmission, too. With this, you can set the switches to forward packets up to 9K in size before discarding them.

The integral Web server enables Web-based management via a Web browser. This GUI interface enables switch configuration, system dashboard, maintenance, and monitoring. The switch is fully managed, supporting SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3. The embedded RMON software agents support RMON groups 1 (history), 2 (statistics), 3 (alarms), and 9 (events). For easy deployment, LLDP/LLDP-MED features to aid the switch in discovering neighboring devices on a network. The wide range of management and support features also includes dual-image (primary and secondary) OS file backup, port mirroring for analysis, industry-standard sFlow switched network monitoring, UPnP for ease of device-to-device interoperability, and cable diagnostics.