Asante Technologies IC38480 User Manual

Network Switches

Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet

New! IntraCore

®

IC38480 (top) and IC36240 managed Gigabit switches.

“Asante has the switches of choice for the graphics market,” said Pat
Taylor, president of Proactive Technologies. “We supply products to customers that
operate multi-million dollar presses running around the clock. Downtime is very
expensive. We needed to get a good price on networking equipment, without
sacrificing performance. Asante had the vision to make Gig affordable right now.”

PRODUCT BRIEF

Tech-Edge e-zine, January 26, 2004

Gigabit Switches (10/100/1000BaseT)

Asanté Gigabit Ethernet switches are ideal for:

• Aggregating traffic from other switches (IC38480, IC36240, IC35160-T)

• Workgroups connecting desktops, servers and peripherals

Model Gigabit Ports 10/100/1000BaseT GBIC Rackmount Management Advanced Features

IC38480 48 48 4 SFP Yes Enterprise-Class

IC36240

GX5-2400W 24 24 -- Yes Smart Trunk, VLAN, mirroring
GX5-800P 8 8 -- -- Unmanaged
GX5-500 5 5 -- -- Unmanaged

24 24 4 SFP Yes Enterprise-Class Layer 2, jumbo frame

Layer 2, jumbo frame

The integra

ted Gigabit ports will run 10/100/1000 Mbps using Category 5 UTP for 100 meters/328 feet.

Gigabit Fiber Switches (1000BaseSX, 1000BaseLX)

These Asanté IntraCore switches use industry-standard GBIC modules for all fiber connections. They are
well-suited

Asanté GB
meters/721 feet) and GBIC-1000L

as backbone and aggregation switches.

IC modules include GBIC-1000SX (multimode, 850nm wavelength, 62.5µ core, 220

X (single mode, 1300nm, 62.5µ core, 550 meters/1,804 feet).

Fast Ethernet Swit ches (10/100BaseTX)

These economical 10/100 switches are used primarily in workgroups to connect desktops and printers.
Gigabit ports, available on some models, provide high-speed connections to the network backbone.

Model Gigabit Ports GBIC 10/100/1000BaseT 10/100 Ports Management Advanced Features

GX5-424W 4 2 SFP 2 24 Smart Trunk, VLAN, mirroring
FS4124R
FS4116R -- -- -- 16 Unmanaged Rackmount
FS5008 -- -- -- 8 Unmanaged
FS5005 -- -- -- 5 Unmanaged

-- -- -- 24 Unmanaged Rackmount

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