3Com 3800 - 1 Switch 3800 Overview; About the Switch 3800; Summary of Features

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SWITCH 3800 OVERVIEW
This chapter describes the following:
■ Switch 3800 features
■ How to use the Switch 3800 in your network configuration
■ Switch 3800 front view
■ Switch 3800 rear view
■ Factory default settings
About the
Switch 3800
Network managers are currently faced with the challenge of creating
networks that can provide high-speed and high performance to serve
the needs of today’s network users.
Part of the 3Com SuperStack
®
II range of products, the Switch 3800
provides switching and IP Routing between multiple
10BASE-T/100BASE-TX ports and one Gigabit Ethernet port.
Summary of
Features
The Switch 3800 has the following features:
■ 24 autosensing 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX ports, one Gigabit Ethernet
port, and one redundant Gigabit Ethernet port
■ Support for 12,000 addresses in the Switch forwarding database
■ Fully nonblocking operation
■ All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
■ Full-duplex operation
■ 2Mb packet memory
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