Description Of Hardware - Edge-Core ECS4510-28T Installation Manual

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Description of Hardware

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WITCH RCHITECTURE
This Gigabit Ethernet switch employs a wire-speed, non-blocking switching
fabric. This permits simultaneous wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low
latency on all ports. The switch also features full-duplex capability on all ports,
which effectively doubles the bandwidth of each connection.
This switch uses uses store-and-forward switching to ensure maximum data
integrity. With store-and-forward switching, the entire packet must be received
into a buffer and checked for validity before being forwarded. This prevents
errors from being propagated throughout the network.
This switch also includes one slot on the rear panel for a slide-in dual-port SFP+
10GBASE module.
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ETWORK ANAGEMENT
This switch contains a comprehensive array of LEDs for "at-a-glance" monitoring
of network and port status. It also includes a management agent that allows you
to configure or monitor the switch using its embedded management software, or
via SNMP applications. To manage the switch, you can make a direct connection
to the console port (out-of-band), or you can manage the switch through a
network connection (in-band) using Telnet, the on-board web agent, or SNMP-
based network management software.
For a detailed description of the management features, refer to the Management
Guide.
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ESCRIPTION OF
10/100/1000BASE-T P
The switch contains 28 RJ-45 ports that operate at 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, half or
full duplex, or at 1000 Mbps, full duplex. Because all ports on this switch support
automatic MDI/MDI-X operation, you can use straight-through cables for all
network connections to PCs or servers, or to other switches or hubs. (See
"1000BASE-T Pin Assignments" on page
Each of these ports support auto-negotiation, so the optimum transmission
mode (half or full duplex), and data rate (10, 100, or 1000 Mbps) can be
selected automatically. If a device connected to one of these ports does not
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