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ES-3148 User’s Guide

This chapter describes the front panel and rear panel of the Switch and shows you how to 
make the hardware connections.

The figure below shows the front panel of the Switch.

Figure 9   Front Panel 

The following table describes the ports on the panels.

The Switch has 48 10/100Mbps auto-negotiating, auto-crossover Ethernet ports. In 10/
100Mbps Fast Ethernet, the speed can be 10Mbps or 100Mbps and the duplex mode can be 
half duplex or full duplex.

10/100 Mbps Ethernet Ports

RJ-45 Gigabit / Mini-GBIC 

Dual Personality Interfaces

Table 1   Front Panel

48 10/100 

Mbps RJ-45 

Ethernet Ports

Connect these ports to a computer, a hub, an Ethernet switch or router.

Two Dual 

Personality 

Interfaces 

Each interface has one 1000 Base-T RJ-45 port and one Small Form-Factor 

Pluggable (SFP) slot (also called a mini-GBIC slot), with one port or transceiver 

active at a time. 

2 100/1000 

Mbps RJ-

45 Ports

Connect these ports to high-bandwidth backbone network Ethernet switches using 

1000Base-T compatible Category 5/5e/6 copper cables.

2 Mini-

GBIC Slots

Use mini-GBIC transceivers in these slots for fiber-optic connections to backbone 

Ethernet switches.