HP J4897A, Installation Manual

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Introducing the HP Procurve Series 2700 Switches
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The features of the Series 2700 Switches include:
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8 or 24 auto-sensing 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 ports.
■ plug-and-play networking — all ports are enabled — just connect the
network cables to active network devices and your switched network is
operational.
■ IEEE 802.3ab “Auto MDI/MDI-X” on all twisted-pair ports, meaning that
all connections can be made using straight-through twisted-pair
cables
. Cross-over cables are not required, although they will also work.
Complying with the IEEE 802.3ab standard, the pin operation of each port
is automatically adjusted for the attached device: if the switch detects that
another switch or hub is connected to the port, it configures the port as
MDI; if the switch detects that an end-node device is connected to the
port, it configures the port as MDI-X.
■ automatic learning of the hardware addresses in each switch’s address
forwarding table (the Switch 2708 has an 8000-entry table, the Switch 2724
has a 32,000-entry table).
■ automatically negotiated full-duplex operation for the twisted-pair ports
when connected to other auto-negotiating devices.
■ auto-negotiation of flow control for ports operating at full duplex.
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