Hardware Panels; Chapter 3 Hardware Panels; Front Panel; Gigabit Ethernet Ports - ZyXEL Communications GS2210 Series User Manual

This chapter describes the front panel and rear panel of the Switch and shows you how to make the
hardware connections.

3.1 Front Panel

The following figures show the front panels of the Switch.
Figure 7 Front Panel: GS2210-24
Figure 8 Front Panel: GS2210-24HP
Figure 9 Front Panel: GS2210-48
Figure 10 Front Panel: GS2210-48HP

3.1.1 Gigabit Ethernet Ports

The Switch has 1000Base-T auto-negotiating, auto-crossover Ethernet ports. In 10/100/1000 Mbps
Gigabit, the speed can be 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps and the duplex mode can be half
duplex or full duplex.
An auto-negotiating port can detect and adjust to the optimum Ethernet speed (10/100/1000
Mbps) and duplex mode (full duplex or half duplex) of the connected device.
An auto-crossover (auto-MDI/MDI-X) port automatically works with a straight-through or crossover
Ethernet cable.
Four 1000Base-T Ethernet ports are paired with a mini-GBIC slot to create a dual personality
interface. The Switch uses up to one connection for each mini-GBIC and 1000Base-T Ethernet pair.
The mini-GBIC slots have priority over the Gigabit ports. This means that if a mini-GBIC slot and
the corresponding GbE port are connected at the same time, the GbE port will be disabled.
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