Hardware

1. Supports 24 ports RJ45 10/100Mbps and 2 ports 1000Mbps combo shared with SFP slots
2. Auto-detection 100Base-FX and 1000Base-SX/LX mini-GBIC fiber module on SFP ports
3. IEEE802.3ab Auto-MDI/MDIX on all 100/1000Mbps twisted-pair ports
4. Automatic polarity detection and correction on all RJ-45 ports for automatic adjustment of wiring errors
5. Provides IEEE802.3x Flow Control mechanism ensures zero packet loss:
   - Flow Control for full-duplex operation mode
   - Back Pressure for half-duplex operation mode
6. Supports 8K MAC address and up to 3Mb packet buffer
7. Supports Store & Forward architecture and performs forwarding and filtering
8. Provides wire speed and non-blocking switching performance
9. Supports access switch through Web, Telnet or Console
10. Supports firmware upgrade through Web or Console

Software

1. Four groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) of embedded remote monitoring (RMON) agents for network monitoring and traffic analysis
2. Provides SNMP protocol v1/v2c (Simple Network Management Protocol) to monitor and control the switch by using SNMP management applications such as HP Open View
3. Support In-Band Console management, access through SNMP set and get requests
4. Support IGMP snooping to limit flooding of IP multicast traffic and filtering for controlling the set of multicast groups to which hosts on a switch port can belong
5. Supports Rapid Spanning Tree (IEEE802.1w) and Multiple Spanning Tree (IEEE802.1s) for loop free installation
6. Supports IEEE802.1Q tagged based VLAN for assigning users to VLAN associated with appropriate network resources, traffic patterns, and bandwidth
7. Up to 256 VLAN entries can be configured
8. CPU Management interface could belong to a standalone VLAN group for easy management and to avoid the attack from clients
9. Supports IEEE802.1p/DSCP CoS scheduling for classification and preferred high-priority voice traffic on a port-port basis
10. Per port Ingress and Egress Rate Limiting. Minimum rate is 64kbps, granularity is 64kbps
11. Supports IEEE802.3ad Link Aggregation and LACP, up to 3 Aggregation groups
12. Port Security to lock the MAC address to service dedicates authorized users and supports up to 24 MAC address for each port
13. Supports IEEE802.1x Port-Based Authentication
14. Built-in Radius client to co-operate with the Radius Servers on the network
15. Built-in DHCP client to get IP address from DHCP server automatically
16. Intelligent broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast storm control
17. Friendly ease to use English version Web-Based interface for configuration and management
18. Supports CLI interface for local Console or remote Telnet management
19. Software/Firmware/Configuration upgrade or download through Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) from switch port or Http from in-band or X modem from out-band.