Alfa Network AFS05E Manuals

AFS05E / AFS08E 5/8 Port Fast Ethernet N-way Switches The N-way switches are essential for moving workgroups from the conventional 10Mbps shared Ethernet collision domain to multiple dedicated Ethernet segments. These switches deliver dedicated 100Mbps links to each attached LAN segment (independent collision domain) or attached PCs all with conventional cabling and adapters. They completely overcome the bottleneck of shared 10Mbps Ethernet networks by providing a wide bandwidth. Which makes them ideal for increasing the throughput of interconnected Ethernet hubs or server farms. On top of that, they use autonegotiation to select the optimal trans-mission speed and mode for each connection. The store-and-forward switching mechanism is adopted in the series of ALFA switches. And, they even provide flow control via back pressure to minimize packet loss. Back-pressure jamming flow control in half-duplex mode -´ Store-and-forward scheme to forward packets. -´ Operates at maximum packet filtering and forwarding rate. Routing table contains 1K(AFS05E) & 8K(AFS08E) entries per unit to store MAC address for attached network nodes SPECIFICATION AFS05E AFS08E Network Ports 5 8 Standards 802.3 10BaseT 802.3u 100BaseTX 802.3u 100BaseTX 802.3 10BaseT Non-Blocking Yes Yes Full Duplex On all ports On all ports Auto-Negotiation Flow Control On all ports Yes On all ports Yes Uplink P ort 1 1 MAC Address entries 1K 8K Buffer Memory s ize 128KByte 256KByte LED Per Port : 10/100 Link/Ac tivity Collision/FullDuplex Per Port : 10/100 Link/Ac tivity Collision/FullDuplex