ES-3124 User’s Guide

CHAPTER 3

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 9 Front Panel

RJ-45 Gigabit Ports for Stacking

Console Port

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/100 Mbps

 

Ethernet Ports

 

 

 

 

 

LEDs

 

 

 

Management Port

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

2 100/1000

Connect these Gigabit Ethernet ports to high-bandwidth backbone network Ethernet

Mbps RJ-45

switches or use them to daisy-chain other switches.

Gigabit 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

Connect these Gigabit Ethernet ports to high-bandwidth backbone network Ethernet

Mbps RJ-45

switches.

Gigabit

 

Ports

 

Mini-GBIC

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

Ports

Ethernet switches.

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