Alfa Network AFS05E User manual

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