Magnum P62-Series Hardened Switches Installation and User Guide (05/05)
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4.0 OPERATION
This section describes the function and operation of the Magnum P62-Series Switches.
4.1
Dual-Speed Functionality, and Switching
The Magnum P62-Series Hardened Switch provide six 10/100 RJ-45 switched
ports, and two 100Mb fiber ports. The architecture supports a dual speed switching environment,
with two built-in full-duplex “future-proof” fiber ports. The six RJ-45 copper ports equipped with
auto-negotiation capability.
The switched RJ-45 ports are full / half duplex and auto-sensing for speed. (See section
2.2). When the connected device is 10 Mbps, P62s obey all the rules of 10 Mbps Ethernet
configurations. The 10 Mbps users share a 10 Mbps traffic domain, and can “communicate with”
100Mbps users as well as 100Mbps domain. Similarly, the 100Mbps traffic obeys the rules of
100Mbps Ethernet, and can communicate with 10Mb domain too.
All Magnum P62 units are plug-and-play devices. There is no software configuration to
be done at installation or for maintenance. The Half / full duplex mode for the RJ-45 switched RJ-
45 ports is user dependent and changes (by auto-negotiation) to full or half duplex as the unit
attached with these ports. The internal functions of P62-Series Switch is described below.
Switching, Filtering and Forwarding
