AirLive Ether-GSH2416W - Manual (Page 4)

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1 Introduction
The Ether-2416W web smart switch is a high performance web-smart Layer 2 switch that provides
users with switched 16 mini-GBIC fiber ports and 8 10/100/1000Mbps copper ports for building up
Ethernet network. This is specially designed for the use at the environment that needs high-density
fiber ports and copper gigabit ports simultaneously, such as big enterprise, big ISP and telephone
companies. When user adopts proper fiber transceivers, single-mode or multi-mode, he may
contracture a high speed backbone for large traffic data center or service center.
Web interface management provides control capability over TCP/IP, this make user convenient and
easy to manage switch with browser no matter at local or remote side.
Non-blocking and maximum wire speed performance are designed on all switched ports, and it also
supports auto-negotiation and MDI/-MDIX function on all switched 8 10/100/1000M RJ-45 Gigabit
ports, these function make user really easy to use and reduce the matching effort on straight and
cross-over line issues and on different speed setting.
This system supports both port-based VLAN and 802.1Q (tag-based) VLAN to catch-up the
application needed incoming VLAN age. To increase bandwidth application, it supports 4 trunk
groups with up to 8 member ports, and moreover, these trunk ports are with fair-over function to
provide redundant back-up when one or some ports are malfunctioned in that trunk group. In
addition to in-band management through RJ-45 ports, it also provides RS-232 terminal port with
command line interface (CLI) for user to do initial setting or operation while in-band domain is
malfunctioned.