3Com manual Switch 9100 Overview, About, Summary, Features

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SWITCH 9100 OVERVIEW

	This chapter describes the following:
	■	Switch 9100 features
	■ How to use the Switch 9100 in your network configuration
	■ Switch 9100 front view
	■ Switch 9100 rear view
	■	Factory default settings
About the	Network managers are currently faced with the challenge of creating
Switch 9100	networks that can provide high-speed and high performance to serve the
	needs of today’s network users.
	Part of the 3Com SuperStack® II range of products, the Switch 9100
	provides switching between six 100/1000BASE-TX ports and two
	1000BASE-SX ports.
Summary of	The Switch 9100 has the following features:
Features	■	Six autosensing 100/1000BASE-TX ports and two 1000BASE-SX ports
	■ Support for 128K addresses in the switch forwarding database
	■	Fully nonblocking operation
		■ All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
	■ Full-duplex operation
	■	4Mb packet memory
	■	Virtual LANs (VLANs)
		■ Support for 256 VLANs
		■ Support for IEEE 802.1Q tagging