Asante Technologies user manual Introduction, Introducing the FriendlyNET 7000 Series

1 Introduction

This chapter introduces Asanté FriendlyNET 7000 Series Gigabit Switches and provides an overview of switching technology.

Introducing the FriendlyNET 7000 Series

Thank you for purchasing an Asanté FriendlyNET 7000 Series Gigabit Switch. FriendlyNET 7000 products are unmanaged 10/100 Fast Ethernet switches which provide built-in or optional Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. These switches are designed to address increasing network bandwidth needs and to accommodate future network expansion.

FRIENDLYNET 7108 GIGABIT SWITCH

Switched Gigabit Ethernet Port

															100/10Mbps							Link/Data
																			Power			Full Duplex/Collision
															Full/Half					Tx	Rx				Uplink										MII
Power															Link/Data												1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
								1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8											Normal									Power
																										Uplink
														Figure 1-1				FriendlyNET 7108 Gigabit Switch
																				Option Slot A										Option Slot B
FRIENDLYNET 7000 SERIES GIGABIT SWITCH																			Switched Gigabit Ethernet Port										Switched Gigabit Ethernet Port
A1	A2	A3	A4	A5	A6	A7	A8	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	B7	B8							Link/Data										Link/Data
															100/10Mbps
															Full/Half				Power			Full Duplex/Collision							Power			Full Duplex/Collision
															Link/Data					Tx	Rx									Tx	Rx
															100/10Mbps
															Full/Half
Power															Link/Data
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
															Uplink																				MII
																Normal	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8			9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
																Uplink																			Power

Figure 1-2 FriendlyNET 7016 Gigabit Switch

Each Switch features full plug-and-play installation. LED indicators include power, MII power, 100/10Mbps, full- or half-duplex, and link/data, for easy monitoring of Switch operation.

For network expansion, each Switch has an uplink port that makes it easy to connect to another Fast Ethernet switch or to the network backbone.

The FS7016 has two expansion slots built in to the front panel. A Gigabit SX XP module or a 10/100 8-port XP module can be easily plugged in to either or both of the expansion slots. Each Asanté Gigabit SX expansion module adds a 1,000Mbps port, for connection to a high-speed server or the corporate backbone. Each Asanté 10/100 8-port expansion module adds another 8 ports to the Switch.

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