mode. Gigabit ports will advertise their speed and full-duplex operation, and negotiate flow control with the connected device at 1000BASE-T and 100BASE-TX.
Because the Model FS518T switch is an ISO media access control (MAC) layer device, the switch is network protocol independent and compatible with all popular networks such as the Internet or TCP/IP, NetWare, DECnet, Microsoft NETBEUI, and LANTASTIC.
Features
The Model FS518T switch has the following key features:
•Sixteen auto-negotiating (speed, duplex mode, and flow control) 10/100 Mbps UTP ports to provide fast information exchange, resource sharing, and client or peer-to-peer communication using simple Category 5 UTP cable
•Eighteen vista RJ-45 network ports, with built-in LEDs to monitor individual port status
•Two auto-negotiating (speed, duplex mode, and flow control) 100/1000 Mbps UTP ports which support 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps full-duplex with standard RJ-45 connectors
•Auto negotiation supported by all 10/100 Mbps and Gigabit ports
•Automatic address-learning function to build the packet-forwarding information table
The table contains up to 8,000 MAC addresses (that is, the switch can support networks with as many as 8,000 devices).
•Wire-speed filtering and forwarding to direct traffic to the appropriate route with- out slowing down the traffic
•Store-and-forward forwarding mode to minimize erroneous packets on the network
•Aging function to automatically track changes in network configuration
