LevelOne GTL-2690, Installation Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Overview
The Gigabit Ethernet Switch is intelligent multilayer switch (Layer 2, 3) with 24 10/
100/1000BASE-T ports, four of which are combination ports
*
that are shared with
four SFP transceiver slots (see Figure 1-1, Ports 21-24). The rear panel provides
two slots for single-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet hot-swappable expansion modules, and
two stacking ports. Units can be stacked up to eight high through the built-in stacking
ports that provide a 48 Gbps stack backplane.
The switch includes an SNMP-based management agent embedded on the main
board, which supports both in-band and out-of-band access for managing the stack.
The switch can easily tame your network with full support for Spanning Tree
Protocol, Multicast Switching, Virtual LANs, and IP routing. It brings order to poorly
performing networks by segregating them into separate broadcast domains with
IEEE 802.1Q compliant VLANs, empowers multimedia applications with multicast
switching and CoS services, and eliminates conventional router bottlenecks.
The switch can be used to augment or completely replace slow legacy routers,
off-loading local IP traffic to release valuable resources for non-IP routing or WAN
access. With wire-speed performance for Layer 2 and Layer 3, the switch can
significantly improve the throughput between IP segments or VLANs.
Figure 1-1 Front Panel
* If an SFP transceiver is plugged in, the corresponding RJ-45 port is disabled for ports 21-24
on GTL-2690.
Serial Console Port
SFP Slots
System Status LEDs
Stack ID
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
21 22 23 24
Stack
Master Power
Module Diag
Stack
Link
Stack ID
RPU Master
Select
Console
Stack ID
Power
Stack
Master
Stack
Link
RPS
Diag Module
21 22 23 24
GTL-2690
10/100/1000 Mbps RJ-45 Ports
Port Status LEDs