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LANCOM Installation Guide – Introduction
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Introduction
Overview
LANCOM switches are the foundation for a reliable infrastructure. These
switches deliver multiple intelligent features for improving the availability
of your critical business applications, protecting your data, and optimizing
your network bandwidth to deliver information and applications more
effectively. Easy to set up and use, they provide the ideal combination of
economic efficiency and technical capabilites from entry level to enter-
prise level networks. All models offer enhanced security and management
functions. In addition, they have networking features to support common
applications of data, voice, security and wireless networking.
Switch architecture
The switches performs a wire-speed, non-blocking switching fabric. This
allows wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low latency on all ports
simultaneously. The switch also features full-duplex capability on all ports,
which effectively doubles the bandwidth of each connection. The switches
use store-and-forward technology to ensure maximum data integrity.
With this technology, the entire packet must be received into a buffer and
checked for validity before being forwarded. This prevents errors from
being propagated throughout the network.
