Farallon Communications 8-Port 10/100M manual Introduction, Key Features, Performance Highlights

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This user guide is applied to the 8 ports 10/100M N-Way Mini Switch . The 8-Port 10/100M N-Way Mini Switch is designed for easy installation and high performance in an environment where traffic on the network and the number of users increase continuously. Small businesses and corporate branch offices can now take full advantage of 100Mbps Fast Ethernet performance and preserve existing desktop investment with no changes required to PCs, NICs, cabling, drivers, or PC configurations.

Key Features

• Conforms to IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T and IEEE 802. 3u 100BASE-TX standards

• Eight 100/10Mbps RJ-45 ports

• Support store-and-forward mode switching

• Full and Half-Duplex mode operation

• IEEE802.3x flow control for Full-Duplex operation

• Back pressure for Half-Duplex flow control

• Support one Uplink port for expansion

• Auto-negotiation capability

• Source address learning and aging function

• LEDs to indicate : TEST, Speed/ACT.,FDX/COL., and Power status

Performance Highlights

• Provide one Uplink port for uplink to another switch, hub or repeater

• Store-and-forward switching scheme capability to support rate adaptation and ensures data integrity

• Auto-negotiation on each port.

• Auto-polarity detection for correction of incorrect polarity on the received twisted pair on each port

• Data forwarding rate 148,800 pps per port at 100% of wirespeed

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

• The shortest forwarding latency time 2