Performance features

10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

The Switches are an unmanaged 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch that offers solutions in accelerating small Ethernet workgroups’ bandwidths. Other key features are:

4 or 8 UTP/STP ports (depending on model) all come with auto-negotiation and operate at 10/100 Mbps for connection to servers and hubs. All ports can be configured for full or Half-duplex operation.

♦Uplink/ MDI-II (media dependent interface) port for uplink to another switch, hub or repeater. Please note that if you are using the uplink port, you will not be able to use port one (1x) because these ports are logically connected.

♦Store and forward switching scheme capability to support rate adaptation and ensures data integrity.

♦N-way Auto-negotiation for any port. This allows for auto-sensing of speed (10/100 Mbps)and auto-detecting mode (Full-duplex or Half- duplex) thereby providing you with automatic and flexible solutions in your network connections.

♦Auto polarity detection for correction of incorrect polarity on the receive twisted pair at each port.

♦Data forwarding rate 148,800 pps per port at 100% of wire-speed for 100Mbps speed.

♦Data forwarding rate 14,880 pps per port at 100% of wire-speed for 10Mbps speed.

♦Data filtering rate eliminates all error packets, runts, etc. at 148,800 pps per port at 100% of wire-speed for 100Mbps speed.

♦Data filtering rate eliminates all error packets, runts, etc. at 14,880 pps per port at 100% of wire-speed for 10Mbps speed.

4	Introduction