SMC Networks 8728L2 FICHE, Installation Manual

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Overview
SMC’s TigerSwitch 1000, SMC8728L2, is an intelligent switch with
24 10/100/1000BASE-T ports, four Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP)
transceiver slots on the front panel (see Figure 1-1, slots 25-28), and two
optional expansion slots on the rear panel for 10GBASE modules.
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 switch.
The switch provides a broad range of powerful features for Layer 2
switching, delivering reliability and consistent performance for your
network traffic. It brings order to poorly performing networks by
segregating them into separate broadcast domains with IEEE 802.1Q
compliant VLANs, and empowers multimedia applications with multicast
switching and CoS services.