Installing the Switch

Installation Procedures

8. Connect the Network Cables

Connect the network cables, described under “Cabling Infrastructure” (page 2-5), from the network devices or your patch panels to the fixed RJ-45 ports on the switch or to any mini-GBICs you have installed in the switch.

Installing the Switch

Using the RJ-45 Connectors

To connect:

Push the RJ-45 plug into the RJ-45 jack until the tab on the plug clicks into place. When power is on for the switch and for the connected device, the Link LED for the port should light to confirm

apowered-on device (for example, an end node) is at the other end of the cable.

If the Link LED does not go on when the network cable is connected to the port, see “Diagnosing with the LEDs” on page 5-4, in chapter 5, “Trouble- shooting”.

To disconnect:

Press the small tab on the plug and pull the plug out of the jack.

off = 10 Mbps

 

 

 

 

PoE-Int egrated 10/1 00/1 000Base-T P orts (1 - 24T) — Ports are IEEE A uto MDI/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link

1

Mode

3

5

7

9

11

Link

13

Mode

15

flash = 100 Mbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on = 1000 Mbps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link

2

Mode

4

6

8

10

12

Link

14

Mode

16

RJ-45 connector

Unshielded twisted-pair cable:

•Category 3, 4, or 5 for 10 Mbps ports

•Category 5 or better for 100 Mbps ports

•Category 5e or better for 1000 Mbps ports

Maximum distance: 100 meters

Figure 2-9. Connecting an RJ-45.

 

Connecting Cables to mini-GBICs

 

 

N o t e

Each of the four mini-GBIC slots is shared with the associated 10/100/

 

1000Base-T RJ-45 port. If a mini-GBIC is installed in a slot, the associated RJ-

 

45 port is disabled.

 

If you have any mini-GBICs installed in the switch, the type of network

 

 

connections you will need to use depends on the type of mini-GBICs you have

 

installed.

 

For mini-GBICs ports, and in general for all the switch ports, when a network

 

cable from an active network device is connected to the port, the Link LED

 

for that port should go on. If the Link LED does not go on when the network

 

cable is connected to the port, see “Diagnosing with the LEDs” on page 5-4

 

in chapter 5, “Troubleshooting”.

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