User manual AIRLIVE LIVE-GSH5T

[. . . ] Live-GSH5T All Gigabit SOHO Switch 5 × 10/100/1000Base-T NWay Auto-MDI/MDIX With Broadcast Storm Control User's Manual Trademarks All rights reserved. Other product names and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. FCC Warning This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the requirements for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These requirements are designed for reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment operating in a commercial environment. This equipment can generate and radiate electromagnetic energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with this guide, may cause significant interference with radio communication. [. . . ] 8 Table 3-2 1000BASE-T pin assignments for RJ-45 connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Table 4-1 1000BASE-T pin assignments for RJ-45 connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Table 5-1 Station Port LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 iv Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch 1 Product Overview 1 Product Overview Introduction 5× 10/100/1000Base-T port Gigabit Ethernet Switch with Broadcast Storm Control Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch is an auto-sensing and auto-negotiating Gigabit Ethernet Switch with Broadcast Storm Control capability. Its five 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit ports provide 10/100/1000Mbps connections to PC with gigabit cards or gigabit switches Live-GSH5T's unique switching fabric provides non-blocking full wire speed for all ports. Auto MDI/MDIX function is provided for conventional uplinking to another switch/hub using ordinary straight-through cable. With its auto-sensing, Live-GSH5T automatically detects the speed of the devices you plug into, and routes the incoming data to its destination. Its auto-negotiating function allows existing devices running at different speeds to communicate easily within the same network. Broadcast Storm Control The Live-GSH5T automatically filters out the broadcast traffic when the broadcast packets exceed 5% of the total traffic. Broadcast storm can significantly impede the performance of the network. The Live-GSH5T protects your network from such situations. Store-and-Forward Architecture against Packet Loss When network is under heavy traffic, the shared memory buffer in the switching devices might yield incorrect detections due to overfed memory buffer. This setback can happen either when data is transmitted in IEEE802. 3x Full Duplex or Back Pressure Flow Control mode. To solve this problem, Live-GSH5T utilizes a fixed memory buffer allocation with Store-and-forward transmission to ensure an effective buffer allocation for each port. Store-and-forward transmission controls data flow from transmitting to receiving nodes with the receiving buffer threshold adjusted to an optimal value, thus guaranteeing against all possible packet losses. Active Flow Control Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch implements in full duplex mode a flow control that is compliant to IEEE 802. 3x standard. While in half duplex mode, it employs an optional Back 1 Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch 1 Product Overview Pressure Flow Control to stall the incoming data when port buffers are saturated. With this flow control mechanism, it can be ensured that frames dropped during transmission are reduced to a minimum. Non-blocking Wire Speed Live-GSH5T's non-blocking cross-bar matrix architecture provides high-end performance for departmental and workgroup environments at a fraction of the cost of similar devices. Typically, this type of architecture was found only in high-end switches designed to handle huge corporate networks. With bandwidth needs and network efficiency concerns, Live-GSH5T's switching fabric design is the perfect answer for solution. System/Port Status Information at a Glance There are 2 sets of LEDs on the front panel: System LED and Station port LEDs, . - Bcst/DIAG (yellow) to indicate either filtering of broadcast frames or if the switch power on self test fails status Station Port LEDs For port 1 ~ port 5 - 10M Link/Act (green) to indicate 2 status in 10Mpbs mode: (1. ) linking status (2. ) activity - 100M Link/Act (green) to indicate 2 status in 100Mpbs mode: (1. ) linking status (2. ) activity - 1000M Link/Act (green) to indicate 2 status in 1000Mpbs mode: (1. ) linking status (2. ) activity Wall-mountable Cabling distance up to 100 meters for twisted-pair cable 3 Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch 2 Preparation before Installation 2 1. 3. Preparation before Installation Unpack the Package Before you begin the installation of Live-GSH5T All Gigabit Switch, make sure that you have all the necessary accessories that come with your package. Follow the steps below to unpack your package contents: Clear out an adequate space to unpack the package carton. Put back all the shipping materials such as plastic bag, paddings and linings into the package carton and save them for future transport need. After unpacking and taking out the entire package contents, you should check whether you have got the following items: Live-GSH5T All Gigabit Switch One AC power adapter Rubber pads and stacking clip Support CD-ROM (The PDF version of this User's Manual can be found within) If any of these above items is missing or damaged, please contact your local dealer for replacement. Fig. 2-1 Package Content 4 Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch 2 Preparation before Installation The Front Panel The front panel is where you can find the LED indicators. [. . . ] Live-GSH5T can provide five 1000BASE-T gigabit backbone connections to another gigabit switch or high-end server. With gigabit throughput, backbone traffic can be greatly improved for the ever-increasing bandwidth demand by the internet/intranet multimedia applications. 13 Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch 5 LED Indicators 5 LED Indicators Before connecting any network device to Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch, you should take a few minutes to look over this chapter and get familiar with the front panel LED indicators of your Switch. The front-panel LED indicators of Live-GSH5T Gigabit Ethernet Switch comprise three sets of LEDs: System Status LEDs, Diagnostic LEDs, and Gigabit Port LEDs. Each set of LEDs gives specific information concerning the system status, station port status or the Gigabit port status: Comprehensive LEDs System LED Power LED enables users to monitor the system power Status. Diagnostic LEDs The Diagnostic LEDs consist of the Bcst/DIAG and OvUn Flow LEDS. [. . . ]