Cables And Speed; Multi-Gigabit Rj-45 Ports - NETGEAR M4300-96X Hardware Installation Manual

Table 6. Port LEDs on the port cards (Continued)
Port Type Link, Speed, and Activity LED Behavior
SFP+ ports
SFP+ Solid green. A 10 Gbps SFP+ transceiver module link is established.
1G/10GBASE-X
Blinking green. 10 Gbps traffic is being processed.
Solid yellow. A 1000 Mbps SFP transceiver module link is established.
Blinking yellow. 1000 Mbps traffic is being processed.
Off. No link is established.
QSFP+ ports
QSFP+ Solid green. A 40 Gbps QSFP+ module link is established.
40GBASE-X
Blinking green. 40 Gbps traffic is being processed.
Off. No link is established.
For more information about the port cards, see the NETGEAR Fully Managed Switch Port Cards Installation
Guide, which you can download by visiting downloadcenter.netgear.com.

Cables and Speed

The following table describes the network cables that you can use for the switch copper connections and
the speeds that these cables can support, up to 100 meters (328 feet).
Table 7. Cables and speeds
Speed
100 Mbps
1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, or 5 Gbps
10 Gbps
Note For speeds of 10 Gbps, if the cable length is shorter than 180 feet (55 meters), you
can use a Category 6 (Cat 6) cable.

Multi-Gigabit RJ-45 Ports

Port cards with multi-Gigabit copper RJ-45 ports support 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T with autosensing.
When you insert a cable into an RJ-45 port, the switch automatically ascertains the maximum speed (100
Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps, or 10 Gbps) of the attached device. For devices that support 100 Mbps,
the switch automatically ascertains the duplex mode (half-duplex or full-duplex). All ports support a Category
5 (Cat 5) unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable or higher-rated Ethernet cable terminated with an 8-pin RJ-45
connector. For more information about Ethernet cables, see
To simplify the procedure for attaching devices, all RJ-45 ports support Auto Uplink technology. This
technology allows attaching devices to the RJ-45 ports with either straight-through or crossover cables.
Fully Managed Stackable Switch M4300-96X
Cable Type
Category 5 (Cat 5) or higher rated
Category 5e (Cat 5e) or higher rated
Category 6a (Cat 6a) or higher rated
Hardware Overview
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