Intel IXM5414E manual Specifications and features, Ports, Performance features

For more information about the components of the information panel, see Chapter 3 “Information Panel LEDs and External Ports” on page 17. For more information about the MAC address, see “IP addresses and SNMP community names” on page 21.

Specifications and features

The following section provides a summary of the specifications and features for your IXM5414E switch module.

•Ports

—Four external 1000BASE-T ports for making 10/100/1000 Mbps connections to a backbone, end stations, and servers

—Fourteen internal full-duplex gigabit ports, one connected to each of the blade servers

—Two internal full-duplex 100 Mbps ports connected to the management modules

•Performance features

—Transmission method: Store-and-forward

—Packet filtering/forwarding rate

–Full-wire speed for all connections

•148k packets per second per port (for 100 Mbps)

•1.48m packets per second (pps) per port (for 1000 Mbps)

—Media Access Control (MAC) address learning: Automatic update. Supports 3584 MAC address.

—Forwarding table age time: Maximum age: 10 to 1,000,000 seconds. Default is 300 seconds

—Support for 128 concurrent VLANs

—Switch Topology: Star

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