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The Summit family of switches is comprised of six models, as follows:

Summit1 

Summit2

Summit3

Summit4

Summit4/FX

Summit48

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Summit switches support the following features:

Fully nonblocking operation

All ports transmit and receive packets at wire speed

Optional redundant power supply

128K addresses in the switch forwarding database in bridging mode

Redundant physical Gigabit Ethernet backbone connection

Autonegotiation for half- or full-duplex operation (Fast Ethernet ports, only)

Load-sharing on multiple ports

Virtual local area networks (VLANs) including support for 802.1Q

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP domains

Policy-based Quality of Service (QoS)

Wire-speed Internet Protocol (IP) routing 

IP Multinetting using the Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP)

DHCP/BOOTP Relay

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) version 1 and RIP version 2

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol

Wire-speed IP multicast routing support

IGMP snooping to control IP multicast traffic

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