Asante Technologies 35516 user manual Introduction, Features

Chapter 1. Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the Asanté IntraCore 35516 Series Gigabit switch. The IC35516 is from a family of multi-media and multi-protocol switches capable of supporting Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 and Layer 4 protocols. They are designed to offer industry-leading performance at a very competitive cost of ownership.

Important! This manual describes the hardware setup and configuration commands that are used by the IC35516. It is not intended to be a complete configuration guide for your specific network requirements.

Each IntraCore 35516 switch is a 16-port solution for Gigabit Ethernet switching using shared-memory architecture to achieve Gigabit switching on all ports. The highly integrated system includes MACs, Address Look-up, Content Addressable Memory (CAM), Switch Engine, Primary Buffer Memory, and programmable Quality of Service (QoS).

Two models in the IntraCore 35516 series cover different customer applications.

The IC35516-T is a 16-port switch that has 12 10/100/1000BaseT ports and 4 dual function Gigabit ports that support either 1000BaseT RJ-45 Gigabit ports or GBIC Gigabit ports.

The IC35516-G is a 16-port switch that has 12 GBIC style Gigabit Ethernet ports and 4 dual function Gigabit ports that support either 10/100/1000BaseT RJ-45 Gigabit ports or GBIC Gigabit ports.

The following types of GBIC modules are supported on the IC35516 switches:

•1000SX multi-mode fiber for 500 m applications

•1000LX single-mode fiber for 2 km applications

•1000LH single-mode fiber for 20 km applications

•1000LZ single-mode fiber for ultra distance (120 km) applications

•1000BaseT copper gigabit for low-cost 100 m applications

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 IC35516 is a multi-media, multi-protocol (Ethernet, L2/L3/L4) switch. The following is a list of the switch’s features:

•16 Port 10/100/1000 switch/router, integrating MACs, CAM, packet buffer memory, and switching engine

•Supports wire-speed L2 switching and L3 routing including L2 and IP multicast

•QoS provisioning on Layers 2/3/4 and 802.1p tag

•Flexible wire-speed packet classification

•Packet filtering

•Wire-speed MAC address learning on-chip

•Port-based VLAN support for 4K VLANs according to IEEE Std. 802.1Q

•SNMP, RMON, and SMON statistics counters supported on-chip

•128 KB internal packet buffer

•Full Duplex 1000 Mbps, Full and Half Duplex 10/100 Mbps

•Support for Jumbo frames (up to 32 KB in length)

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