Model FS516/FS524 Fast Ethernet Switch Installation Guide
The NETGEAR™ Model FS516 16-Port Fast Ethernet Switch and Model FS524
24-Port Fast Ethernet Switch provide you with alow-cost, high-performance
network solution and are designed to support power workgroups operating at
either 10 megabits per second (Mbps) or 100 Mbps.
Ethernet switches provide private, dedicated, 10 Mbps (or 100 Mbps) capacity
to each connected PC/server or hub/workgroup segment, which is significantly
higher than in a shared environment. The higher bandwidth enables the use of
applications such as multimedia, imaging, video, or high-performance client-
server functions among users who are spread out over the network.
With both the Model FS516 switch and the Model FS524 switch, improvement
is accomplished very easily, with no change to the desktop (the network
interface cards or software and the network wiring). As a result , th e perf ormance
upgrade and the applications it enables are obtained very quickly and at a low
cost.
The Model FS516 and Model FS524 switches have the following key features:
• Sixteen (Model FS516) or twenty-four (Model FS524) automatic speed-
sensing (autosensing) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports to provide fast
information exchange, resource sharing, and client or peer-to-peer
communication using simple Category 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP)
cable
• Automatic address learning function to build the packet-
forwarding information table
The table contains up to 4,000 MAC addresses for the Model FS516 and
up to 8,000 MAC addresses for the Model FS524 (that is, the switch can
support networks with as many as 8,000 devices).
• Switch-selectable autonegotiating or full-duplex mode of operation
Full-duplex mode doubles throughput of point-to-point connections by
letting individual ports transmit and receive concurrently when the other
end also supports full-duplex mode. The default is half-duplex if the
connected device does not support N-way negotiation. The duplex toggle
switch can be set to full-duplex if the connected port is operating at full-
duplex mode.
• Wire-speed filtering and forwarding to provide “traffic cop” function by
directing traffic to the appropriate route without slowing down the traffic
Store-and-forward forwarding node to minimize erroneous packets on the
network
• Half-duplex backpressure
• Easy Plug-and-Play installation with no software to configure, which saves
time and minimizes the potential for configuration errors
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