Asante Technologies IC36240 Series setup guide Introduction, Features

Chapter 1: Introduction

The IntraCore IC36240 24-port Layer 2+ Managed Gigabit Switch is a high-performance network switch used to reduce network congestion and application response times. The 24-port IntraCore IC36240 multi-protocol switch supports Layer 2+ and Gigabit Ethernet switching. The switch has 24 10/100/1000BaseT ports with Auto-Uplink and has 4 combination ports used for sharing with SFP mini GBICs. Gigabit fiber technology is used to connect two switches together. The switches also have an SNMP-based management agent embedded on the main board. This agent supports both in-band and out-of-band access for managing the switch.

These switches have a broad range of features for Layer 2+ switching delivering reliability and consistent performance for network traffic. The switches improve network performance by segregating them into separate broadcast domains with IEEE 802.1Q compliant VLANs and provide multimedia applications with multicast switching and CoS services.

The system can operate as a stand-alone network or be used in combination with other IntraCore switches in the backbone.

1.1 Features

The IntraCore IC36240 Gigabit Ethernet switch is a 24-port Layer 2+ multi-media, multi-protocol (Ethernet and Layer

2+) switch. The following is a list of features:

•24 port 10/100/1000 switch with auto-uplink

•Supports wire-speed L2+ switching

•CoS provisioning on Layers 2 and 802.1p, IP precedence (TOS, DSCP, TCP/UDP) port number

•Flexible wire-speed packet classification

•Packet filtering

•16K MAC address

•1K configurable port-based support for 4K VLAN ID, IGMP snooping

•SNMP v1, v2, and v3, RMON, statistics counters supported

•Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1D (standard), 32 instances of 802.1w (rapid) VLAN and 802.1s (multiple)

•12 trunks and 8 ports/trunk link aggregation

•2MB internal packet buffer

•Support for Jumbo Frames (up to 9 KB in length)

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