PI DATE: September 2006 PORTS: 8 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet; auto-sensing, auto-MDI/MDIX; RJ-45 4 x Dual-personality Gig port pairs; config as 1000B-T or SFP 1x10Gig slot for direct 10-Gig XENPAK transceiver/10Gig Module(XFP) PERFORMANCE:44.0 Gbps switching capacity (max) 32.7 Mpps forwarding rate (max) wirespeed performance across ports in full mesh configuration LAYER 2 SWITCHING: 8,196 MAC addresses; port-based VLANs, LACP; Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) & Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP); IGMP snooping and multicast filtering LAYER 3 SWITCHING: HW based routing with 32 static routes CONVERGENCE: 8 HW queues per port; IEEE 802.1p CoS/QoS; automatic voice VLAN assignment SECURITY: IEEE 802.1X, ACLs, RADA STACKING: Up to 16 devices per cluster (768 Gigabit front-panel ports); Ssingle IP Add & Mgmt i/faces for centralized control; compatible with 3Com Switch 5500 and 5500G clustering 3COM MGMT : 3Com Ntwk Supervisor, 3Com Ntwk Director, 3Com Entp Mgmt Suite OTHER MGMT : CLI via console or Telnet, embedded web MGMT I/face, SNMP MGMT DIMENSIONS: height: 44 x 442 x 300 mm( H x W x D) * Wirespeed performance across ports in full mesh config , Store-n-forward switching; latency <10 s * Multicast filtering and Rapid Spanning Tree protocol improve QoS, scalability and network availability