1 Introduction
The GSS-24T2SFPweb smart switch is a high performance web-smart Layer 2 switch that provides users with switched 24 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports, and 2 paired mini-GBIC ports. The mini GBIC ports are paired with ports 1 and 2 on the switch. This pairing is configured to ensure that fibre connections get higher priority over copper if both fibre and copper media exist. Single-mode or multi-mode fiber SFP transceivers can be utilized to provide high speed backbone connectivity. A Web based management interface provides control for the various switch functions and enables easy management either locally of remotely with any industry standard web browser.
The GSS-8T16SFPweb smart switch is a high performance web-smart Layer 2 switch that provides users with switched 8 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports, and 16 mini-GBIC ports.
The Switch provides Non-blocking, Maximum wire speed performance on all switched ports, while also supporting auto-negotiation and MDI/-MDIX functions.
This switch supports both port-based VLAN and 802.1q (tag-based) VLAN. For high bandwidth applications, the switch supports 4 trunk groups with up to 8 ports per trunk group. These trunks enable port failover within their group for redundant links.
In addition to in-band management through the switches RJ-45 ports, also provided is a RS-232 terminal port with CLI (Command Line Interface) for system administrators to perform initial configuration or modify operational modes independently from the in-band network.
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This document will refer to the GSS-24T2SFP from this point forward.
The Feature set is the same between the two switches – they are based on the same switch controller. The only differing points are:
GSS-24T2SFP has 2 SFP ports that are paired with ports 23 and 24. GSS-8T16SFP has 16 SFP ports, these are not paired with any copper ports.