SMC Networks SMC8848M manual Chapter About, Overview

CHAPTER 1

ABOUT THE

TIGERSTACK II 10/100/1000

Overview

SMC’s TigerStack II 10/100/1000 SMC8824M and SMC8848M are intelligent multilayer switches (Layer 2, 3) with 24/48 10/100/ 1000BASE-T ports, four of which are combination ports* that are shared with four SFP transceiver slots (see Figure 1-1, Ports 21-24/45-48). The rear panel provides two slots for single-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet hot-swappable expansion modules, and two stacking ports. Units can be stacked up to eight high through the built-in stacking ports that provide a 48 Gbps stack backplane.

The switches include an SNMP-based management agent embedded on the main board, which supports both in-band and out-of-band access for managing the stack.

These switches can easily enhance your network with full support for Spanning Tree Protocol, Multicast Switching, Virtual LANs, and IP routing. It brings order to poorly performing networks by segregating them into separate broadcast domains with IEEE 802.1Q compliant VLANs, empowers multimedia applications with multicast switching and CoS services, and eliminates conventional router bottlenecks.

*If an SFP transceiver is plugged in, the corresponding RJ-45 port is disabled for ports 21-24 on SMC8824M or ports 45-48 on SMC8848M.

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