Planet Technology WGS3-2840 - Manual (Page 6)

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1.3 About the Layer 3 Managed Ethernet Switch
The PLANET WGS3-2840 equip with 24-Port 10/100Mbps with 4 Gigabit TP/SFP Combo interfaces plus the powerful
Layer 2 management functions / Layer 3 routing feature, it’s 24 10/100Mbps and 4 Gigabit TP ports supports
Auto-Negotiation for optimal speed detection through RJ-45 Category 5/5e or 6 cables. All the ports support
Auto-MDI/MDI-X that can automatically detect the type of connection to any Ethernet device without requiring special
straight or crossover cables. The 4 SFP interfaces together with 4 Gigabit TP ports by default, shared with port 25 to port
28. With PLANET mini-GBIC fiber-optic module installed it offers incredible extensibility, flexibility and connectivity to the
other core switch or servers.
For Layer 2 universal demand and application, the PLANET WGS3-2840 provides high effective management functions,
such as per port disable / enable, speed duplex, flow control settings, bandwidth control and per port Ethernet traffic sta-
tistics for counter. To improve the entire network environment performance, the PLANET WGS3-2840 provide IEEE
802.1d Spanning Tree and IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree function, for optimal LAN connection and diagnose be-
tween two node switch devices, the IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation is the ideal solution and it supports up to 12 IEEE
802.3ad aggregation groups.
For network security enhance, the PLANET WGS3-2840 provide 512 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN groups to segment the
port-based networks. Also the static MAC address / MAC address filtering function and comprehensive Access Control List
(ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. For network Ethernet traffic analysis, the PLANET WGS3-2840 provide port
mirroring function to monitor the traffic on its Ethernet ports, the PLANET WGS3-2840 equip with QoS features to enhance
services offered by telecoms, this function provide priority queues per port for different types of traffics, allowing adminis-
trators to set policies for classified filtering and rule-based rate limitation.
Designed to offer the guaranteed IP Layer 3 routing with RIP, OSPF and DHCP relay function support, the WGS3-2840
empower the performance of pure IP-based network easier then ever, the IGMP snooping function helps to build a mul-
timedia networks like video-conference and etc.
With its built-in Web-based management, the PLANET WGS3-2840 offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent man-
agement and configuration facility. The PLANET WGS3-2840 supports standard Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) and can be managed via any standard-based management software. For text-based management, the
WGS3-2840 can also be accessed via telnet method and console port.
For easier to configure multiple WGS3-2840 with the same setting in a short time, the PLANET WGS3-2840 provide
current configuration backup / restore function. It also provides new firmware upgrade through the Web interface for per-
formance enhance of the WGS3-2840.
1.4 Features
Layer 2 Features
„ The 10/100Base-TX ports support auto-sensing and auto-negotiation
„ Provides wire speed of Layer 2 switching performance
„ Supports up to 16K MAC address entries
„ IEEE 802.3x Flow Control for Full-Duplex mode and Back-Pressure of Half-Duplex mode
„ Provide Store-and-Forward forwarding scheme
„ Provides Broadcast storm protection
„ Supports IGMP snooping
„ Supports 802.1Q Tagged VLAN for dynamic VLAN Management , 512 VLAN groups support
„ Supports Spanning Tree Protocol with IEEE 802.1d STP and IEEE 802.1w RSTP
„ Link Aggregation bandwidth gathering supports IEEE 802.3ad LACP and Static Port Trunk, 12 link aggrega-
tion groups support
„ Provides Port Mirror (many-to-1)
„ Bandwidth control on each port
„ ARP configuration support
IP Routing Features
„ IP Routing protocol supports RIP v1/v2, OSPF protocol
„ Routing interface provides VLAN routing mode
Multicast Routing Features