D-Link DGS 3100-24TG

D-Link DGS 3100-24TG ... devices in the entry-level network management category. The DGS-3100-24TG contains 8 10/100/1000Mbps ports and 16 SFP ports to connect fiber optic media to another switch, server, core router switch, or network backbone. Stacking ports allow up to 20Gbps physical stacking ability. Outstanding features include scalable expansion, comprehensive network security, granular bandwidth control and extensive network management. SMB looking for a flexible, advanced but affordable solution can deploy these switches to set up Gigabit connections to their desktops or build up a company-wide network backbone.

The switch comes with 2 dedicated HDMI stacking ports, each providing 5Gbps stacking bandwidth. Up to 6 DGS-3100-series units, 288 10/100/1000Mbps ports can be stacked up in a linear or fault-tolerant ring topology. A stack can consist of 10/100/1000Mbps switches, 10/100/1000Mbps PoE switches, or a combination of both types, with up to 96 SFP fiber links. Units can be gradually added to the stack to accommodate growth, while expansion beyond a single stack is possible using Gigabit port trunks between stacks, or from stack to network backbone and server paths.

Network administrators can define throughput levels for each port to manage bandwidth. The bandwidth limiting feature provides fine granularity with the ability to define limits down to 64Kbps segments. Broadcast storm control and flow-based bandwidth control can reduce the level of damage that a virus attack can do to the network. The switch provides IGMP snooping and MLD snooping to control multicast transmission, and port mirroring to facilitate diagnostics.

The DGS-3100-24TG supports standard-based management protocols such as SNMP, RMON, Telnet, Web GUI and SSH/SSL security authentication. With DHCP auto configuration, the administrator can pre-set configurations and save them in a TFTP server, and individual switches can boot their IP from the server and load in the pre-set configurations.