Both hubs also feature cascade connectors (two for KF-16M, one for KF-16MS) on the rear for cascading one hub to another in a hub stack. Up to four hubs can be cascaded in one stack. A hub stack can be treated as a single hub which gives a total of 64 dual-speed TP ports with only one hop count.
1.1 Features
The hub provides the following features:
•Complies with IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.3u standard for Class II Fast Ethernet repeater
•Provides 16 fixed dual-speed TP ports. Each port can support either the Ethernet 10Mbps connection or a Fast Ethernet 100Mbps connection with auto-sensing the connection speed.
•The hub provides one uplink jack that allows easy linking of two hubs via straight-through UTP cable.
•The TP ports are implemented with auto partition and reconnect- ing function to protect the network from failure caused by con- secutive collisions from a specific port.
•The jabber function is implemented to prevent reception of illegally long packet, which would degrade network performance.
•The internal 10M-to-100M switch in KF-16MS provides address learning, filtering, and packet forwarding functions to bridge the traffic between the Ethernet segment and the Fast Ethernet segment. Only one KF-16MS is needed in a hub stack.
•Each hub provides daisy-chain connection for cascading up to 4 hubs per stack with total of 64 TP ports. A hub stack may be composed of four KF-16M units or three KF-16M with one KF-16MS unit.
•Two hub stacks can be connected through a UTP cable as an expansion (up to 126 ports) is needed.
•The hub provides comprehensive LED indicators to indicate the hub status and port status.
•Desktop and 19-inch rack mountable
