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The ''smart'' voice ready 3Com Baseline Switch 2948 SFP Plus is a web managed Layer 2 Gigabit switch. It offers enterprise class features, customized and priced for small and mid sized organizations. With an easy to use switch interface and advanced features VLANs, IEEE 802.1X authentication and Rapid Spanning Tree, this switch is the most cost effective way to provide a converged network. The Baseline Switch 2948 SFP Plus has forty eight 101001000 ports and four dual purpose Gigabit ports copper or SFP based fiber to connect to high performance computers, servers, or core network backbones. This ''smart'' switch has the features that help build a voice ready network, with support for auto voice VLAN, SNMP based management, IGMP snooping and query, and IEEE 802.1X and advanced Access Control Lists ACLs for strengthening security. The switch provides non blocking performance all ports perform at wirespeed, which helps to eliminate network traffic bottlenecks. LACP link aggregation IEEE 802.3ad allows ports to be automatically grouped together to form an ultra high bandwidth connection that greatly expands bandwidth capacity to the network backbone. The Baseline Switch 2948 SFP Plus also supports Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree, traffic prioritization, priority queuing and VLANs. These switching features ensure optimal use of available bandwidth as traffic flow is directed according to the needs of the business. This Baseline Plus switch is operational straight out of the box as long as default settings are acceptable, there is no need to configure the switch. If desired, the switch can be configured using a web browser or SNMP management software. For networks that require more control, the switch web management interface provides an intuitive, menudriven process for even novice users to quickly and confidently configure the switch during initial setup and manage it during normal operation. Graphical switch and port views provide
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