Product Overview; Description - Enterasys Vertical Horizon VH-2402S2 Hardware Installation Manual

1. PRODUCT OVERVIEW

This chapter provides the following information:
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Product Description
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Features
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Front and Rear Panel Component Descriptions
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Feature Summaries
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Application Example

Description

This installation guide describes Enterasys Networks' Vertical Horizon
VH-2402S2 Fast Ethernet switch. The switch provides 24 10Base-T/
100Base-TX ports, plus two slots for optional slide-in 100Base-FX,
1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX, 1000Base-T or GBIC modules. One of
these slots can also be used for an optional Stacking Module that allows
you to attach up to seven switches to a 9.6 Gbps high-speed backplane.
There is also an optional SNMP-based Management Module that can be
installed in the rear panel. This module supports both in-band and out-of-
band access for managing the switch and the attached stack.
The switch employs a high-speed switching fabric. This design allows for
simultaneous transport of multiple packets at low latency on all ports. It
also uses store-and-forward switching to ensure maximum data integrity.
In this mode, the entire packet must be received into a port buffer and
checked for validity before being forwarded. This prevents errors from
being propagated throughout the network. This switch also features full-
duplex capability on all ports, which effectively doubles the bandwidth of
each connection.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: The information contained in this guide
applies to both the VH-2402S2 and VH-2402S products.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The VH-2402S2 (or VH-2402S) switch re-
quires a VH-SMGMT2 Management Module to be installed with
a minimum firmware version of 2.6.
NOTE: A switch stack, or a switch in a standalone configura-
tion, must have an optional Management Module installed to
enable all ports. The base unit alone has all ports disabled by
default.
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