Application
· Hi-performance inter-workgroup or enterprise-edge switching
Features
Performance
· 8Gbps switch fabric, non-congestion design, all wire-speed forwarding
· 80-km transfer by Gigabit optical fiber, direct connection to WAN
Security and reliability
· Quota system for connected hosts per port
· IEEE 802.1x port-based user authentication
· Port trunking adds to bandwidth and redundancy
Easy maintenance
· Automatic recognition for straight-through or cross-over cables
· Stackable physically and through cluster technology. Central management with unified IP address saves IP addresses
· Management via CONSOLE port, Web, SNMP, Telnet, etc.
· Software and BootRom upgrade through TFTP
Traffic and broadcast control
· Auto-detection and restraining of broadcast storm, IGMP snooping, effectively restrict broadcast flooding
· Full- and half- duplex traffic control
· Ethernet port rate limiting with 64 K step size(1 M step size for rate over 1.8 M)
· Advanced buffer management, 802.1p support. 4 dispatching queues per port, mapping the 8 priority queues in 802.1p
· QoS support