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Chapter 1: About the TigerSwitch 10/100/1000

Overview

SMC’s TigerSwitch 10/100/1000 SMC8124PL2 is an intelligent Layer 2 PoE switch
with 24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, two of which are combination ports* that are
shared with two SFP transceiver slots (see Figure 1-1, Ports23-24).
The switch includes an SNMP-based management agent embedded on th e m ai n
board, which supports both in-band and out-of-band management acces s.
It can easily enhance your network with full support for Spanning Tree Protocol,
multicast switching, and virtual LANs. It brings order to poorly performin g netw o rks
by segregating them into separate broadcast domains with IEEE 802.1Q compliant
VLANs, and empowers multimedia applications with multicast switching a nd C o S
services.
Figure 1-1 Front Panel
Figure 1-2 Rear Panel

Switch Architecture

This Gigabit Ethernet switch employs a wire-speed, non-blockin g swi t chi ng fabric.
This permits simultaneous wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low latency on
all ports. The switch also features full-duplex capability on all ports, whi ch effectively
doubles the bandwidth of each connection.
For communications within the same VLAN, the switch uses store-and- f orw ard
switching to ensure maximum data integrity. The entire packet must be received into
* If an SFP transceiver is plugged in, the corresponding RJ-45 port is disabled for ports 23-24.
10/100/1000Mbps RJ-45 Ports
ConsolePort
PortStatus LEDs
SFPSlots
PowerSocket
100-240V~
3A50-60Hz