Asante Technologies FS4008P manual Product Introduction

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Asanté FriendlyNET FS4008P Installation Guide

Asanté FriendlyNET FS4008P

8-port Dual-speed Fast Ethernet Switch

User’s Guide

Product Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the Asanté FriendlyNET FS4008P. These switches were designed to give you the ultimate in performance, flexibility, ease-of-use, and reliability.

Your Asanté FriendlyNET FS4008P can increase performance on your network by bringing full Ether- net bandwidth to individual workgroups, or straight to the desktop, instead of requiring all stations to share the bandwidth of a single network. The switch’s 100Mbps Fast Ethernet capability can eliminate bottlenecks in connections to servers, or can link 10Mbps workgroups to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet net- work backbone.

For straight-through 10Base-T/100Base-TX connection to servers and workstations, the switch sup- ports full-duplex connection, effectively doubling the total throughput on individual links. The switch’s store-and-forward switching architecture forwards packets to their destination with a minimum of delay.

The switches can be placed on a tabletop or wall-mounted, and provide the ideal solution for your small, medium, or large Ethernet/Fast Ethernet network. It is designed to comply fully with the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and 802.3u Fast Ethernet standards.

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