Installation Guide for the Model SW510 and Model SW518 Ethernet Switches
Introduction
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Two 10/100 Mbps ports on each of the switches
One of the 10/100 Mbps ports is configurable as Normal (MDI-X) or Uplink (MDI).
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Switch-selectable half/full-duplex mode for the 10 Mbps ports
In full-duplex mode, the throughput of point-to-point connections is doubled by enabling
individual ports to transmit and receive concurrently when the other end also supports
full-duplex mode.
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Auto- or full-duplex mode for the 10/100 Mbps ports:
— Auto-negotiable between full-duplex and half-duplex mode when set in auto-duplex mode
The mode will default to half-duplex transmission if the remote end cannot provide a
proper signal to indicate its own capability.
— Can be set to full-duplex mode permanently for interoperability with legacy 100BASE-TX
devices
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Wire-speed filtering and forwarding to provide “traffic cop” function by directing traffic to the
appropriate route without slowing down the traffic
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Plug-and-Play operation with no software to configure
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Low latency store-and-forward transmission mode with leading edge to leading edge of less
than 75
µ
s
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Ten vista RJ-45 connector ports on the Model SW510 and eighteen vista RJ-45 connector
ports on the Model SW518 switch
Each port has built-in LEDs to monitor individual port status.
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Comprehensive LED indicator panel to monitor overall switching condition
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Auto address learning function to build the routing information database
The routing table contains 8,000 Ethernet address entries per port to store MAC addresses for
attached network nodes.
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2-megabyte (MB) buffer provided for the 10 Mbps ports on the Model SW518 and 1 MB
buffer provided for the 10 Mbps ports on the Model SW510, with an additional 2 MB of buffer
memory for the two 10/100 Mbps ports
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Conformity to the ISO/IEC 8802-3 and ANSI/IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T standards
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Conformity to the IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX standard
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Rack Mount Kit provided for installing the switch in a standard 19-inch rack
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