Overview of the P220 Gigabit Switch Family

The P220FE switch has the following features:

❒24 10/100Base-TX ports

❒One Gigabit Ethernet port

❒Optional Expansion modules:

•Four 10/100Base-TX ports (autosensing)

•Two 100Base-FX ports

•One 1000Base-SX

•One 1000Base-LX

•One 1000Base-SLX

Switch Features

This section describes the following switch features:

❒Crossbar Switch Fabric

❒Virtual Bridging Functions

❒VLAN Functions

❒Hunt Groups

❒OpenTrunk Technology

❒Spanning Tree

❒Buffer and Queue Management

❒Web-Based Management

Crossbar Switch Fabric

The crossbar switch matrix provides low latency, high throughput packet switching using a crossbar architecture (Figure 2-1).

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Cajun P550/P220 Switch Operation Guide