DESCRIPTION OF SOFTWARE FEATURES

Simplify network management for node changes/moves by remotely configuring VLAN membership for any port, rather than having to manually change the network connection.

Provide data security by restricting all traffic to the originating VLAN.

Port Mirroring – The switch can unobtrusively mirror traffic from any port to a monitor port. You can then attach a protocol analyzer or RMON probe to this port to perform traffic analysis and verify connection integrity.

Port Trunking – Ports can be combined into an aggregate connection. Trunks can be manually set up or dynamically configured using IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). The additional ports dramatically increase the throughput across any connection, and provide redundancy by taking over the load if a port in the trunk should fail. The switch supports four trunks, with up to eight up-link ports per trunk.

Broadcast Suppression – Broadcast suppression prevents broadcast traffic from overwhelming the network. When enabled on a port, the level of broadcast traffic passing through the port is restricted. If broadcast traffic rises above a pre-defined threshold, it will be throttled until the level falls back beneath the threshold.

Flow Control – Flow control reduces traffic during periods of congestion and prevent packets from being dropped when port buffers overflow. The switch supports flow control based on the IEEE 802.3x standard. By default, flow control is enabled on all ports.

Traffic Priority – This switch provides Quality of Service (QoS) by prioritizing each packet based on the required level of service, using two priority queues, and processing the high-priority queue before the low- priority queue, or using Weighted Round Robin Queuing (WRR). It uses IEEE 802.1p and 802.1Q tags to prioritize incoming traffic based on input from the end-station application. These functions can be used to provide independent priorities for delay-sensitive data and best-effort data.

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