Physical Port

• 16-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit RJ45 copper
• 2 100/1000BASE-X mini-GBIC/SFP slots
• RJ45 console interface for switch basic management and setup
• Reset button for system factory default

Switching

• Hardware based 10/100Mbps, half/full duplex and 1000Mbps full duplex mode, flow control and auto-negotiation and auto MDI/MDI-X
• Features Store-and-Forward mode with wire-speed filtering and forwarding rates
• IEEE 802.3x flow control for full duplex operation and back pressure for half duplex operation
• 9K jumbo frame
• Supports CSMA/CD protocol

Layer 2 Features

• Supports VLAN
• IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN
• Provider Bridging (VLAN Q-in-Q) support (IEEE 802.1ad)
• Protocol VLAN
• Voice VLAN
• Private VLAN (Protected port)
• Management VLAN
• GVRP
• Supports Spanning Tree Protocol
• STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
• RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)
• MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol)
• STP BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering and BPDU Forwarding
• Supports Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
• Cisco ether-channel (static trunk)
• Maximum 8 trunk groups, up to 8 ports per trunk group
• Provides port mirror (many-to-1)
• Loop protection to avoid broadcast loops

Quality of Service

• Ingress/Egress Rate Limit per port bandwidth control
• Storm Control support
• - Broadcast/unknown unicast/unknown multicast
• Traffic classification
• IEEE 802.1p CoS
• TOS/DSCP/IP precedence of IPv4/IPv6 packets
• Strict priority and Weighted Round Robin (WRR) CoS policies

Multicast

• Supports IPv4 IGMP snooping v2 and v3
• Supports IPv6 MLD snooping v1, v2
• IGMP querier mode support
• IGMP snooping port filtering
• MLD snooping port filtering

Security

• Authentication
• IEEE 802.1X port-based network access authentication
• Built-in RADIUS client to cooperate with the RADIUS servers
• DHCP Option 82
• RADIUS/TACACS+ login user access authentication
• Access Control List
• IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACL
• IPv4/IPv6 IP-based ACE
• MAC-based ACL
• MAC-based ACE
• MAC Security
• Static MAC
• MAC Filtering
• Port security for source MAC address entries filtering
• DHCP snooping to filter distrusted DHCP messages
• Dynamic ARP Inspection discards ARP packets with invalid MAC address to IP address binding
• IP source guard prevents IP spoofing attacks
• DoS attack prevention
• SSH/SSL

Management

• IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack management
• Switch management interface
• Web switch management
• Telnet command line interface
• NMP v1, v2c and v3
• SSH and SSL secure access
• User privilege levels control
• Built-in Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client
• BOOTP and DHCP for IP address assignment
• System maintenance
• Firmware upload/download via HTTP/TFTP
• Configuration upload/download through web interface
• Dual images
• Hardware reset button for system reboot or reset to factory default
• SNTP Network Time Protocol
• Cable diagnostics
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP-MED
• SNMP trap for interface link up and link down notification
• Event message logging to remote Syslog server
• Four RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms and events)
• PLANET smart discovery utility