GarrettCom Magnum 6KQ Manual De Usuario

Magnum 6KQ Managed Field Switch Installation and User Guide             (04/07) 

 
 

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NOTE  – Some NIC cards only auto-negotiate when the computer system 

enabled” rule above, but may be occasionally encountered. 

When operating in 100Mb half-duplex mode, cable distances and hop-counts 

may be limited within that collision domain. The Path Delay Value (PDV) bit-times must 

account for all devices and cable lengths within that domain. For Magnum 6KQ Fast 

Ethernet switched ports operating at 100Mb half-duplex, the bit time delay is 50BT. 

 Magnum 6KQ Switches incorporate a flow-control mechanism for Full-

Duplex mode. The purpose of flow-control is to reduce the risk of data loss if a long 

burst of activity causes the switch to save frames until its buffer memory is full. This is 

most likely to occur when data is moving from a 100Mb port to a 10 Mb port and the 

10Mb port is unable to keep up. It can also occur when multiple 100Mb ports are 

attempting to transmit to one 100Mb port, and in other protracted heavy traffic situations.  

Magnum 6KQ Switches implement the 802.3x flow control (non-blocking) on 

Full-Duplex ports, which provides for a “PAUSE” packet to be transmitted to the sender 

when the packet buffer is nearly filled and there is danger of lost packets. The 

transmitting device is commanded to stop transmitting into the 6KQ Switch port for 

sufficient time to let the Switch reduce the buffer space used. When the available free-

buffer queue increases, the Switch will send a “RESUME" packet to tell the transmitter 

to start sending the packets. Of course, the transmitting device must also support the 

802.3x flow control standard in order to communicate properly during normal operation. 

Note: When in Half-Duplex mode, the 6KQ Switch implements a back-pressure 
algorithm on 10/100 Mb ports for flow control. That is, the switch prevents frames from 
entering the device by forcing a collision indication on the half-duplex ports that are 
receiving. This temporary “collision” delay allows the available buffer space to improve 
as the switch catches up with the traffic flow. 

Receiver Sensitivity and Transmitter Power are the parameters necessary to 

compute the power budget. To calculate the power budget of different fiber media 
installations using Magnum products, the following equations should be used: 
OPB (Optical Power Budget) = P

T

(min) - P

R

(min) 

      

 where P

T 

= Transmitter Output Power, and P

R

 = Receiver Sensitivity 

 
   Worst case OPB = OPB - 1dB(for LED aging) - 1dB(for insertion loss)