TRENDnet S80TXE - Switch, TEG-S80TXE User Manual

TEG-S80TXE

User’s Guide

Version 10.12.2005

Copyright ©2005. All Rights Reserved. TRENDnet.

Table of Contents

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

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

3. Unpacking and Setup .......................................................................

4. Identifying External Components ......................................................

Technical Specifications ........................................................................

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1. About This Guide

This user's guide tells you how to install your 8-Port 1000BASE-T Gigabit
Ethernet Switch, how to connect it to your Gigabit Ethernet network.

Terms

For simplicity, this documentation uses the terms “Switch” (first letter upper
case) to refer to the 8-Port 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Switch, and “switch”
(first letter lower case) to refer to all Ethernet switches, including the 8-Port
1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Switch.

Overview of this User's Guide

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.

Technical Specifications.

Lists all the technical specifications of the Switch.

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2. Introduction

This section describes the features of the 8-Port 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet
Switch, as well as providing some background information about Gigabit
Ethernet and 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 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet and a hundredfold increase over 10­Mbps Ethernet. Since it is compatible with all 10-Mbps and 100-Mbps 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 busses 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 subnets.

Gigabit Ethernet supports 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.

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Switching Technology

Another key development pushing the limits of Ethernet technology is in the
field of switching technology. A switch bridges Ethernet packets at the MAC
address level of the Ethernet protocol transmitting among connected Ethernet
or fast Ethernet LAN segments.

Switching is a cost-effective way of increasing the total network capacity
available to users on a local area network. A switch increases capacity and
decreases network loading by making it possible for a local area network to be
divided into different segments which don't compete with each other for
network transmission capacity, giving a decreased load on each.

The switch acts as a high-speed selective bridge between the individual
segments. Traffic that needs to go from one segment to another is
automatically forwarded by the switch, without interfering with any other
segments. This allows the total network capacity to be multiplied, while still
maintaining the same network cabling and adapter cards.

Switching LAN technology is a marked improvement over the previous
generation of network bridges, which were characterized by higher latencies.
Routers have also been used to segment local area networks, but the cost of a
router and the setup and maintenance required make routers relatively
impractical. Today's switches are an ideal solution to most kinds of local area
network congestion problems.

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