Overview - NETGEAR AV Series Hardware Installation Manual

Overview

This installation guide is for the following NETGEAR AV Line of Fully Managed Switches
M4250 Series models:
• 8-port PoE+ and PoE++ models:
- M4250-10G2F-PoE+. Eight PoE+ (802.3at) 1GBASE-T RJ-45 ports, two 1GBASE-T
RJ-45 ports, and two 1G SFP fiber uplink ports. The total PoE budget for the
switch is 125W.
- M4250-10G2XF-PoE+. Eight PoE+ (802.3at) 1GBASE-T RJ-45 ports, two
1GBASE-T RJ-45 ports, and two 10G SFP+ fiber uplink ports. The total PoE budget
for the switch is 240W.
- M4250-10G2XF-PoE++. Eight PoE++ (802.3bt) 1GBASE-T RJ-45 ports, two
1GBASE-T RJ-45 ports, and two 10G SFP+ fiber uplink ports. The total PoE budget
for the switch is 720W.
• LED tiles model with 2.5 Gbps ports:
M4250-12M2XF. Twelve 2.5GBASE-T RJ-45 ports and two 10G SFP+ fiber uplink
ports.
• Aggregation model with multiple 10G SFP+ fiber ports:
M4250-16XF. Sixteen 1G/10G SFP+ fiber ports.
The switch lets you create high-speed connections to a server or network backbone.
For example, you can do the following:
• Connect switches to each other with high-speed links
• Link to high-speed servers
• Provide 10M/100M/1G/2.5G copper and 1G/10G fiber connectivity
You would typically rack-mount the switch in a wiring closet or equipment room as a
standalone switch. The switch is IEEE compliant and offers low latency for high-speed
networking. All ports can automatically negotiate to the highest speed, which makes
the switch also suitable for AV environments with a mix of 1 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps Ethernet
devices and 1G and 10G fiber connections. With the exception of the ports on model
M4250-12M2X, the copper ports that support 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps ports can operate
in half-duplex or full-duplex mode. For 1 Gbps and 2.5 Gbps connections, the copper
ports always operate in full-duplex mode.
Introduction
AV Line of Fully Managed Switches M4250 Series
6 Hardware Installation Guide