Data Sheet 
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Cabling type 
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Unshielded twisted pair (UTP) Category 5 or better for 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX 
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UTP Category 5e or better for 1000BASE-T 
LEDs  Link/Act, PoE, System 
POE  802.3af compliant. Supplies up to IEEE standard maximum of 15.4W on four 10/100/1000 
ports or up to 7.5W on eight 10/100/1000 ports 
Performance 
Switching capacity  16 Gbps, nonblocking 
Forwarding rate  11.9 mpps wire-speed performance 
Layer 2 
MAC table size  8000 
Number of VLANs  256 active VLANs (VLAN ID range is 4096) 
VLAN  Port-based and 802.1Q tag-based VLANs 
Management VLAN 
Head-of-line (HOL) blocking  HOL blocking prevention 
Management 
Web user interface   Built-in Web user interface for easy browser-based configuration (HTTP/HTTPS) 
SNMP  SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3 with support for traps 
SNMP MIBs  RFC1213 MIB-2, RFC2863 interface MIB, RFC2665 Ether-like MIB, RFC1493 bridge MIB, 
RFC2674 extended bridge MIB (P-bridge, Q-bridge), RFC2819 RMON MIB (groups 1, 2, 3, 
and 9 only), RFC2737 entity MIB, RFC 2618 RADIUS client MIB, RFC1215 traps 
RMON  Embedded RMON software agent supports 4 RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and 
events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis 
Firmware upgrade  Web browser upgrade (HTTP) and TFTP 
Port mirroring  Traffic on a port can be mirrored to another port for analysis with a network analyzer or 
RMON probe 
Other management 
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Traceroute 
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SSL 
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SSH 
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RADIUS 
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Port mirroring 
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TFTP upgrade 
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SSL security for web user interface 
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client 
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BOOTP 
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Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) 
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Xmodem upgrade 
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Cable diagnostics 
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Ping 
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Telnet client (SSH secure support) 
Security 
IEEE 802.1X   802.1X - RADIUS authentication; MD5 encryption 
Access control  ACLs - Drop or rate limit based on: 
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Source and destination MAC-based 
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Source and destination IP address 
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Protocol 
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ToS/DSCP 
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Port 
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VLAN 
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Ethertype 
Availability 
Link aggregation  
 
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Link aggregation using IEEE 802.3ad LACP 
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Up to 8 ports in up to 8 groups 
Storm control  Broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast