Planet NOVASwitch FNSW-8086F User Manual page 8

Switch has eight switching ports, each a 10/100 port capable of
autosensing both speed and half/full duplex mode.
With the demand for fiber, NOVASwitch's eight-port switch
provides another model, FNSW-8088F and FNSW-8086F in
addition to the original switch. The FNSW-8088F has eight multi-
mode fiber ports. And for FNSW-8086F, it has 6-port 100BASE-
FX ports and 2-port 10/100BASE-TX ports.
This switch makes it possible to join a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet
network to an existing 10Mbps Ethernet network (FNSW-8086F).
Its internal cache buffers the traffic from the higher bandwidth
100Mbps segment to the 10Mbps segment. If you later decide to
make both segments 100Mbps Fast Ethernet, the ports of the
switch will automatically sense the change and adjust to
100Mbps operation.
In addition to the benefits of integrating 10Mbps and 100Mbps
networks through TP ports, this switch is also useful for
segmenting networks that is bogged down with excess traffic as
a fiber-optic switching backbone. By splitting a network into
several segments and bridging them, you can cut the traffic load
on your network and reduce collisions on each segment,
especially if you can minimize intersegment traffic by placing
users and devices that normally talk to each other on the same
segment.
This switch fully complies with IEEE802.3u, 100BASE-TX,
100BASE-FX, IEEE802.3, and 10BASE-T standards. It features
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"wire-speed switching mechanisms as well as the ability to filter
local traffic, collisions, and error packets to maximize network
performance.
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