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UMMIT
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VERVIEW
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The Summit family of switches is comprised of six models, as follows:
• Summit1
• Summit2
• Summit3
• Summit4
• Summit4/FX
• Summit48
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UMMARY
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EATURES
Summit switches support the following features:
• Fully nonblocking operation
— All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed
• Optional redundant power supply
• 128K addresses in the switch forwarding database in bridging mode
• Redundant physical Gigabit Ethernet backbone connection
• Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation (Fast Ethernet ports, only)
• Load-sharing on multiple ports
• Virtual local area networks (VLANs) including support for 802.1Q
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains
• Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)
• Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing
• IP Multinetting using the Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP)
• DHCP/BOOTP Relay
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol
• Wire-speed IP multicast routing support
• IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic
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