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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Product Overview
Introducing i3 International’s new 24 port Power over Ethernet switch. The S243 is a next generation L2 Managed PoE
switch offering a full suite of L2 features, additional RJ45/SFP combo uplink connections, better PoE functionality and
usability including advanced L3 features such as Static Route that delivers better cost performance and lower total cost of
ownership. This switch is made for megapixel and IP Camera installations using high performance Gigabit Power-over-
Ethernet (PoE).
This chapter provides an overview of the S243 switch, and introduces the key features and supported specifications of this
PoE Web Smart switch.
Specifications
Port Connections
24 10M/100M/1G RJ45 Connector Ports
2 RJ45/SFP Gigabit
Combo ports
1 RJ45 console port
PoE Function
Supports IEEE802.3at (PoE+ 30W)
Supports IEEE802.3af (PoE 15.4W)
PoE ports: 24
PoE Budget: 370 Watts
Hardware Performance
Forwarding Capacity: 38.68Mpps
Switching Capacity: 52Gbps
Mac Table: 8K
Jumbo Frames: 9216 Bytes
Environment
Operating Temperature: 0 to 45
℃
(32 to 113 °F)
Storage Temperature: -20 to 70°C (-4 to 158 °F)
Humidity: 10 to 90% RH (non-condensing)
Mechanism
Dimensions: 442 x 211x 44 mm (L x W x H) (17 ½ x 8
⅜
x 1 ¾
inches)
Weight 3.3 Kg (7.3 lbs.)
Power Supply
AC input: 100-240VAC, 50~60Hz
Maximum Power Consumption: 521 Watts (PoE power included)
Certifications
CE, FCC Part 15 Class A UL
Layer 2 Management Features
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
Standard Spanning Tree 802.1d
Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) 802.1w
Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP) 802.1s
Trunking
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP IEEE 802.3ad
Up to 13 groups
Up to 4 ports per group
VLAN
Supports up to 4k VLANs simultaneously (out of 4096 VLAN IDs)
Port-based VLAN
802.1Q tag-based VLAN
MAC-based VLAN
Management VLAN
Private VLAN Edge (PVE)
Q-in-Q (double tag) VLAN
Voice VLAN
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
DHCP Relay
Relay of DHCP traffic to DHCP server in different VLAN.
Works with DHCP Option 82
IGMP v1/v2/v3 Snooping
IGMP limits bandwidth-intensive multicast traffic to only the requesters.
Supports 1024 multicast groups
IGMP Querier
IGMP querier is used to support a Layer 2 multicast domain of snooping
switches in the absence of a multicast router
IGMP Proxy
IGMP snooping with proxy reporting or report suppression actively filters