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Features and BenefitsConnectivity
◆48 dual-speed ports for easy Fast Ethernet integra tion and for
protection of your investment in legacy LAN equipmen t
◆2 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-sensing Gigabit Ethernet switching ports
that operate in combination with 2 Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP)
transceiver slots
◆Auto-negotiation enables each RJ-45 port to automatically select the
optimum communication mode (half or full duplex) if this feature is
supported by the attached device; otherwise the port can be configured
manually
◆Independent RJ-45 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX ports with support for
auto MDI/MDI-X
◆Unshielded (UTP) cable supported on all RJ-45 ports: Category 3, 4 or
5 for 10 Mbps connections, Category 5 for 100 Mbps connections, and
Category 5 or 5e for 1000 Mbps connections
◆IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, and IEEE 802.3ab compliant
◆Up to 8K-entry, media access control (MAC) address cache
◆IEEE 802.1Q based tagged VLAN
◆IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) through 4 priority queues for each
port
◆IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation: up to 6 aggregated trunks per switch