ZyXEL Communications ES-4124 Hardware Overview, 3.1 Panel Connections

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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 8 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
Two 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 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.

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