Introducing the Switch
Switch Features
Switch Features
The features of the 3500, 3500yl and 6200yl Switches include:
■The 3500yl have 24 or 48 auto-sensing 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 ports. The 3500 have 20 or 44 auto-sensing 10/100Base-T RJ-45 ports.
■Four dual-personality ports—either the auto sensing 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 or the SFP (mini-GBIC) transceivers can be used for each port.
■The 6200yl provides 24 mini-GBIC ports.
■One module slot is provided in the back of the yl switches to support a series of transceivers to provide connectivity to other switch boxes, to a 10 Gig concentrator or to any Ethernet compatible uplink.
■The auxiliary port is reserved for future development.
■The switches can be connected to an HP ProCurve RPS/EPS and receive redundant power from that unit. If the internal power supply in the switch fails, the RPS/EPS unit will immediately provide all the power necessary to keep the switch running.
■Power over Ethernet (PoE) operation—the 3500-24-PoE, 3500-48-PoE and 3500yl switches are IEEE 802.af compliant and provide up to 15.4 W per port to power IP phones, wireless access points, web cameras, and more. For more information, see the PoE Planning and Implementation Guide.
■Plug-and-play networking—all ports are enabled—just connect the network cables to active network devices and your switched network is operational.
■Auto MDI/MDI-X on all 10/100 and 10/100/1000 twisted-pair ports, meaning that all connections can be made using straight-through twisted- pair cables. Cross-over cables are not required, although they will also work. The pin operation of each port is automatically adjusted for the attached device: if the switch detects that another switch or hub is connected to the port, it configures the port as MDI; if the switch detects that an end-node device is connected to the port, it configures the port as MDI-X.
■Automatic learning of the network addresses in each switch’s 8000- address forwarding table, (with configurable address aging value).
■Automatically negotiated full-duplex operation for the 10/100 and 10/100/ 1000 RJ-45 ports when connected to other auto-negotiating devices—the mini-GBIC ports always operate at full duplex.
■Easy management of the switch through several available interfaces:
