About The Tigeraccess Switch; Switch Architecture; Figure 1-1 Front Panel - SMC Networks SMC TigerAccess SMC7824M/FSW Installation Manual

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BOUT THE IGER
This switch can enhance your network with full support for Spanning Tree
Protocol, private VLAN port isolation, and bandwidth rate limiting. It
brings order to poorly performing networks by segregating them into
separate broadcast domains with IEEE 802.1Q compliant VLANs, and
empowers multimedia applications with multicast switching and quality of
service priority queueing.
System and Port indicators
Ground and Power Connection Points
Power Trays
8.7A
8.7A
Alarm Connector

Switch Architecture

This switch employs a wire-speed, non-blocking switching fabric. This
permits simultaneous wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low
latency on all ports. The switch also features full-duplex capability on all
ports, which effectively doubles the bandwidth of each connection.
For communications within the same VLAN, the switch uses
store-and-forward switching to ensure maximum data integrity. With
store-and-forward switching, the entire packet must be received into a
buffer and checked for validity before being forwarded. This prevents
errors from being propagated throughout the network.
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CCESS WITCH
Mgmt Mgmt
GPON/GEPON Module Slot
(located behind the Gigabit combo
module slots and mounting tray)

Figure 1-1 Front Panel

100BASE-BX Subscriber Ports
Gigabit Combo Module Slots
(for 1000BASE-T/SFP Ports)
Mgmt Mgmt
Gigabit Combo Ports
Console Port
Management Port
Fan Tray