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Hardware Overview

This chapter describes the front panel and rear panel of the switch and shows you how to make the hardware connections.

3.1 Panel Connections

The figure below shows the front panel of the switch.

Figure 6 Front Panel

LEDs

10/100 Mbps Ethernet Ports

RJ-45 Gigabit / Mini-GBIC

Dual Personality Interfaces

The following table describes the ports on the panels.

Table 1 Panel Connections

CONNECTOR

DESCRIPTION

24 10/100

Connect these ports to a computer, a hub, an Ethernet switch or router.

Mbps RJ-45

 

Ethernet Ports

 

 

 

Two Dual

Each interface has one 1000 Base-T copper RJ-45 port and one Small Form-Factor

Personality

Pluggable (SFP) fiber port, with one port active at a time.

Interfaces

 

• 2 100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 Gigabit Ports:

 

 

Connect these Gigabit Ethernet ports to high-bandwidth backbone network

 

Ethernet switches.

 

 

 

• 2 Mini-GBIC Ports:

 

Use mini-GBIC transceivers in these slots for fiber-optic connections to backbone

 

Ethernet switches.

 

 

3.1.1 Ethernet Ports

The switch has 24 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating, auto-crossover Ethernet ports. In 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, the speed can be 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps and the duplex mode can be half duplex or full duplex.

 

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