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MultiLink Trunking
Up to four ports can be “trunked”
together to provide a high-bandwidth,
full-duplex trunk of up to 800 Mbps
capacity. MultiLink Trunking also
provides load-balancing and fail-over
protection for important connections to
other switches or servers: if one of the
trunked links should fail, the remaining
links in a MultiLink Trunk will still be
available. Up to six separate MultiLink
Trunks can be configured per switch.
IGMP Snooping
The BayStack 350 Switches feature a new
level of efficient IP MultiCast support by
examining (“snooping”) all IGMP traffic
in hardware at line rate, and pruning
unwanted data streams from affecting
network or end station performance.
Enterprise-Size
MAC Address Table
BayStack 350 Switches support more
than 16,000 MAC addresses per switch
for deployment of large-scale enterprise
networks with many attached devices and
workgroups connected to each switch.
(In a full 802.1Q environment, up to
32,000 MAC addresses are supported.)
Supports
Spanning Tree Protocol
BayStack 350 Switches include built-in
support for Spanning Tree Protocol
(IEEE 802.1D), which detects and
eliminates logical loops in the network.
When multiple paths exist, the switch
will automatically place some ports on
standby to form a network with the most
efficient traffic pathways, avoiding the
continual looping of frames.
Fully Integrated
into Optivity Network
Management Software
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BayStack 350 Switches feature built-in
support for Optivity* network management
software, enabling complete Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
and RMON monitoring and control.
Network administrators can manage
the entire network, including all hubs,
switches, and routers, from a single
management station, dramatically reducing
the network total cost of ownership.
Web-Based Management
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BayStack 350 Switches include built-in
Web-based network management, so
network administrators can easily monitor
the status and access data about their
network via the local corporate intranet,
or from any World Wide Web-connected
PC, anywhere in the world.
BayStack 350 10/100/1000 Switches Data Sheet
Flexible Management Choices
In addition to switch management via
Optivity and any standard Web browser,
an easy-to-use menu-driven interface
can be accessed via console or Telnet for
complete configuration and management
of the BayStack 350 Switch.
Other Advanced
Management Features
• Adjustable rate limits protect the LAN
against broadcast or multicast storms
that can severely limit performance.
• BootP and TFTP support allows
centralized switch IP address assignment,
software upgrades, and SNMP agent
updates over the network.
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Available in future software agent release.
