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 Front Panel Connections

The figure below shows the front panel of the Switch.

Figure 8 Front Panel

 

100/1000 Mbps RJ-45

RJ-45 Gigabit / Mini-

 

Ethernet Ports

GBIC Dual Personality

The following table describes the ports.

 

Table 1 Panel Connections

 

CONNECTO

DESCRIPTION

 

R

 

 

 

44 100/1000

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

Mbps RJ-45

 

 

Ethernet

 

 

Ports

 

 

 

 

Four Dual

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

Personality

Pluggable (SFP) slot (also called a mini-GBIC slot), with one port or

Interfaces

transceiver active at a time.

 

 

 

4 100/

Connect these ports to high-bandwidth backbone network Ethernet

1000

switches using 1000Base-T compatible Category 5/5e/6 copper cables.

Mbps RJ-

 

 

45 Ports

 

 

 

 

4 Mini-

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

GBIC

backbone Ethernet switches.

 

Slots

 

 

 

 

 

 

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