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Chapter 1: Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Asanté IntraCore 35516 Series Gigabit switch. The IC35516 is from a family of multi-
media and multi-protocol switches capable of supporting Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 and Layer 4 protocols. They
are designed to offer industry-leading performance at a very competitive cost of ownership.
Important!
This manual describes the hardware setup and configuration commands that are used by the IC35516. It
is not intended to be a complete configuration guide for your specific network requirements.
Each IntraCore 35516 switch is a 16-port solution for Gigabit Ethernet switching using shared-memory architecture to
achieve Gigabit switching on all ports. The highly integrated system includes MACs, Address Look-up, Content
Addressable Memory (CAM), Switch Engine, Primary Buffer Memory, and programmable Quality of Service (QoS).
Two models in the IntraCore 35516 series cover different customer applications.
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The IC35516-T is a 16-port switch that has 12 10/100/1000BaseT ports and 4 dual-function Gigabit ports that
support either 1000BaseT RJ-45 Gigabit ports or GBIC Gigabit ports.
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The IC35516-G is a 16-port switch that has 12 GBIC style Gigabit Ethernet ports and 4 dual-function Gigabit
ports that support either 10/100/1000BaseT RJ-45 Gigabit ports or GBIC Gigabit ports.
The following types of GBIC modules are supported on the IC35516 switches:
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1000SX multi-mode fiber for 500 m applications
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1000LX single-mode fiber for 2 km applications
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1000LH single-mode fiber for 20 km applications
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1000LZ single-mode fiber for ultra distance (120 km) applications
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1000BaseT copper Gigabit for low-cost 100 m applications
The system can operate as a stand-alone network or be used in combination with other IntraCore switches in the
backbone.
1.1 Features
The IC35516 is a multi-media, multi-protocol (Ethernet, L2/L3/L4) switch. The following is a list of the switch’s
features:
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16-port 10/100/1000 switch/router, integrating MACs, CAM, packet buffer memory, and switching engine
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Supports wire-speed L2 switching and L3 routing including L2 and IP multicast
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QoS provisioning on Layers 2/3/4 and 802.1p tag
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Flexible wire-speed packet classification
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Packet
filtering
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Wire-speed MAC address learning on-chip
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Port-based VLAN support for 4K VLANs according to IEEE Std. 802.1Q
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SNMP, RMON, and SMON statistics counters supported on-chip