D-Link des-1010g User Manual

DES-1010G

8-Port 10/100Mbps +

2-Port 10/100/1000Mbps

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

User’s Guide

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ABLE OF CONTENTS

About This Guide ......................................................................1

P

URPOSE

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ERMS/USAGE

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VERVIEW OF THIS MANUAL

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Introduction ...............................................................................2

G

IGABIT ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY

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F

AST ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY

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WITCHING TECHNOLOGY

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EATURES

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Unpacking and Setup................................................................6

U

NPACKING

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S

ETUP

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D

ESKTOP INSTALLATION

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ACK INSTALLATION (OPTIONAL

).................................................8

C

ONNECTING NETWORK CABLE

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P

OWER ON

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Identifying External Components..........................................10

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RONT PANEL

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EAR PANEL

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LED I

NDICATORS

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Technical Specifications..........................................................12

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BOUT THIS GUIDE

Congratulations on your purchase of the DES-1010G 8-port
10/100Mbps plus 2-port 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet Switch.

Purpose

This manual discusses how to install your DES-1010G.

Terms/Usage

In this manual, the term “Switch” (first letter upper case) refers to your
DES-1010G 8-port 10/100Mbps plus 2-port 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit
Ethernet Switch, and “switch” (first letter lower case) refers to other Ethernet
switches.

Overview of this Manual

Introduction. Describes the Switch and its features.
Unpacking and Setup. Helps you get started with the basic installation of the

Switch.
Identifying External Components. Describes the front panel, rear panel and

LED indicators of the Switch.
Connecting the Switch. Tells you how you can connect the Switch to your

Ethernet network.
Technical Specifications. Lists the technical (general, physical and

environmental, and performance) specifications of the Switch.

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I

NTRODUCTION

This chapter describes the features of the DES-1010G and some background
information about Gigabit Ethernet/Fast Ethernet switching technology.

Gigabit Ethernet Technology

Gigabit Ethernet is an extension of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, utilizing the same
packet structure, format, and support for CSMA/CD protocol, full duplex,
flow control, and management objects, but with a tenfold increase in
theoretical throughput over 100Mbps Fast Ethernet and a one hundred-fold
increase over 10Mbps Ethernet. Since it is compatible with all 10Mbps and
100Mbps Ethernet environments, Gigabit Ethernet provides a straightforward
upgrade without wasting a company’s existing investment in hardware,
software, and trained personnel.

The increased speed and extra bandwidth offered by Gigabit Ethernet is
essential to coping with the network bottlenecks that frequently develop as
computers and their buses get faster and more users use applications that
generate more traffic. Upgrading key components, such as your backbone
and servers to Gigabit Ethernet can greatly improve network response times
as well as significantly speed up the traffic between your subnetworks.

Gigabit Ethernet enables fast optical fiber connections to support video
conferencing, complex imaging, and similar data-intensive applications.
Likewise, since data transfers occur 10 times faster than Fast Ethernet,
servers outfitted with Gigabit Ethernet NIC’s are able to perform 10 times the
number of operations in the same amount of time.

In addition, the increased bandwidth delivered by Gigabit Ethernet is the
most cost-effective method to take advantage of today and tomorrow’s
rapidly improving switching and routing internetworking technologies.

Fast Ethernet Technology

Ethernet, along with its speedier counterpart Fast Ethernet, is the most
popular networking standard in use today. 100BaseT Fast Ethernet is an

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extension of the 10BaseT Ethernet standard, designed to raise the data
transmission capacity of 10BaseT from 10Mbits/sec to 100Mbits/sec. An
important strategy incorporated by 100BaseT is its use of the Carrier Sense
Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) protocol - which is
the same protocol that 10BaseT uses - because of its ability to work with
several different types of cable, including basic twisted-pair wiring. Both of
these features play an important role in network considerations, and they
make 100BaseT an attractive migration path for those networks based on
10BaseT. Since the 100Mbps Fast Ethernet is compatible with all other
10Mbps Ethernet environments, it provides a straightforward upgrade and
takes advantage of the existing investment in hardware, software, and
personnel training.