GarrettCom Quad Manual De Usuario

Magnum Quad-Series Fiber Switches 

Installation and User Guide (06/03) 

A Magnum Quad-Series provides switched connectivity at Ethernet wire-speed 

among all of its ports.  The Magnum Quad-Series supports10/100Mbs for copper media 

and 10 or 100Mb separate traffic domain for fiber port to maximize bandwidth utilization 

and network performance.  A

ll other ports in a Magnum 

Quad-Ser

other por

or for maintenance. The only hardware 

configuration settings are user options for UP-LINK on RJ-45 quad-port. Half / Full 

uplex mode and 10 or 100Mbps selection for the switched ports can be done through 

e internal functions of both are described below. 

 

n 

he 

 where it is not needed.  Traffic needed for maintaining the operation of the 

network (

d switching 

en 

eries units have address table capacity of 24K 

This chapter describes the functions and operation of the Quad-Series. 

ll ports can communicate to a

ies, but local traffic on a port will not consume any of the bandwidth on any 

t. 

Magnum Quad-Series units are plug-and-play devices.  There is no software 

configuring to be done at installation 

d

jumper settings inside the unit. Th

Each time a packet arrives on one of the switched ports, the decision is taken to 

either filter or to forward the packet.  Packets whose source and destination addresses are

on the same port segment will be filtered, constraining them to that one port and relieving 

the rest of the network from processing them.  A packet whose destination address is o

another port segment will be forwarded to the appropriate port, and will not be sent to t

other ports

such as occasional multi-cast packets) is forwarded to all ports. 

 

The Magnum Quad-Series Switches operate in the store-and-forwar

mode, which eliminates bad packets and enables peak performance to be achieved wh

there is heavy traffic on the network. 

All 16-port Magnum Quad-S

node addresses (12K for 8-port models), suitable for use in large networks. They are self-

learning, so that as nodes are added or removed or moved from one segment to another, 

the Quad-Port Switch automatically keeps up with node locations.   

 

30 

.

.