Features and benefits

Management

• Simple Web management

Allows for easy management of the switch even by nontechnical users through an intuitive Web GUI; supports HTTP and HTTP Secure (HTTPS)

• Secure Web GUI

Provides a secure, easy-to-use graphical interface for configuring the switch via HTTPS

• SNMPv1, v2c, and v3

Facilitates management of the switch, as the device can be discovered and monitored from an SNMP management station

• Port mirroring

Enables traffic on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring

• Default DHCP Client mode

Allows the switch to be directly connected to a network, enabling plug-and-play operation; in absence of a DHCP server on the network, the switch will fall back to a unique static address determined by the switch’s MAC address

• Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Synchronizes timekeeping among distributed time servers and clients; keeps timekeeping consistent among all clock-dependent devices within the network so that the devices can provide diverse applications based on the consistent time

• Manual network time configuration

Manually set the date and time on the switch in the absence of a NTP server

• Dual flash images

Provide independent primary and secondary operating system files for backup while upgrading

Quality of service (QoS)

• IEEE 802.1p prioritization with DSCP

Delivers data from the switch to devices based on the priority and type of traffic using Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)

• Broadcast control

Allows limitation of broadcast traffic rate to cut down on unwanted network broadcast traffic

• Rate limiting

Sets per-port ingress enforced maximums and per-port, per-queue minimums

Connectivity

• Auto-MDI/MDIX

Automatically adjusts for straight-through or crossover cables on all ports

• IEEE 802.3X Flow Control

Provides a flow throttling mechanism propagated through the network to prevent packet loss at a congested node

• Loopback detection

If the switch detects a loop, it disables the source port from forwarding data packets originating from the switch to avoid broadcast storms

• Energy                                        Efficient                                         Ethernet Compliant with IEEE 802.3az standard requirements to save energy during periods of low data activity
• Port power save mode

Enables a port to operate at the lowest transmission speed or go down during a specific time range on certain days of a week. The port resumes when the effective time period ends

• Cable test

Performs a check on the status of the cable connected to an Ethernet port on the device. The test determines whether a short circuit or open circuit is present on the cable and the approximate length to the fault in the cable

 

Performance

• Half- and full-duplex auto-negotiating capability on every port doubles the throughput of every port
• IGMP Snooping, v1, v2, and v3

Improves network performance through multicast filtering, instead of flooding traffic to all ports

 

Layer 2 switching

• VLAN support and tagging

Supports IEEE 802.1Q with 4,096 simultaneous VLAN IDs

• Jumbo frame support

Supports up to 10 kilobyte frame size to improve the performance of large data transfers