maintenance required make routers relatively impractical.
Today's switches are an ideal solution to most kinds of local area
network congestion problems.
Features
The DES-3208 Switch was designed for easy installation and high
performance in an environment where traffic on the network and
the number of users increase continuously.
The DES-3208 Switch features:
Ports
8 high performance N-way
Mbps for connection to servers and hubs. All ports can be
auto-negotiated between 10Mbps/ 100Mbps, Half-duplex or
full duplex connections.
Uplink/ MDI-II (media dependent interface) port for uplink
to another switch, hub or repeater.
RS-232 DCE console port for diagnosing the Switch via a
connection to a PC and Console/ Out-of-band management.
MII
(Media
connection port for connection to different physical layer
devices (e.g. fiber )
Performance features
Store and forward switching scheme capability to support
rate adaptation and protocol conversion.
Introduction
10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch User's Guide
ports all operating at 10/100
Independent
Interface)
flexible
media
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