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Getting to Know Your Switch

This chapter introduces the main applications and features of the Switch. It also introduces the ways you can manage the Switch.

1.1 Introduction

The GS2200-48 is a stand-alone layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch. It comes with 44 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports, 4 Dual Personality interfaces (each consisting of one RJ-45 Gigabit port and one slot for a mini-GBIC transceiver (SFP module) with one port active at a time) and two mini-GBIC transceivers for fiber- optic uplink connections.

This section shows a few examples of using the Switch in various network environments.

See Chapter 41 on page 329 for a full list of software features available on the Switch.

1.1.1 Bridging Example

In this example the Switch connects different company departments (RD and Sales) to the corporate backbone. It can alleviate bandwidth contention and eliminate server and network bottlenecks. All users that need high bandwidth can

 

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