Flexible Switching for Server Farms or Wiring Closets
Improve performance across the network with this 24-port 10/100/1000 switch. This high-performance, compact, and affordable switching platform is ideal for a large server farm or for aggregating switches in a wiring closet. Its optional expansion module lets you deploy additional gigabit media such as 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, and 1000BASE-LH70 (long-haul Gigabit Ethernet) in the same platform.

• Nonblocking gigabit switching performance delivers a forwarding rate of more than 41 million packets per second across all ports
  
  
• Layer 2 switching functionality such as multicast filtering, virtual LANs, link aggregation, and RMON supports demanding applications
  
  
• Advanced Class of Service support lets you prioritize critical traffic (check support.3com.com for availability of multilayer classification)
  
  
• Transparent webcache redirection enables Web traffic to be redirected automatically to a 3Com® SuperStack® 3 Webcache, easing administration (check support.3com.com for availability)
  
  
• Layer 3 switching lets you exercise network control through IP routing and implement security policies on your networks using IP access lists
  
  

• Total ports: 24 fixed autosensing 10/100/1000BASE-TX ports, 1 expansion slot
• Media interfaces: RJ-45
• Ethernet switching features: Full-rate, nonblocking switching on all Ethernet ports; full-/half-duplex autonegotiation and flow control; 802.1Q VLAN support, 802.1p, and multilayer traffic prioritization; Layer 3 switching supports IP unicast routing; RIP/RIPv2 support; ARP, ICMP, CIDR, UDP Helper, IP multinetting, and access control lists
• Management: Web interface management, command line interface management, SNMP management via 3Com Network Supervisor 3.0, included free

• Switch, rubber feet, 3Com Network Supervisor CD, user’s guide