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3Com Gigabit Switch 4050
Code: 3C17708-US
Call for Price - 650-733-4466
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High-Availability Gigabit Switching for the
LAN Core
The 3C17708-US 3Com is designed for the demanding requirements at the core backbone of enterprise
networks, 3Com Switch 4050 delivers a unique combination of performance, availability, and
flexibility.
The switch's durable metal chassis—a compact, 2RU-high rack-mountable unit—is
equipped with six 1000BASE-SX ports and six GBIC ports for backbone connectivity, as well
as 12 integrated 10/100/1000 ports for server connections. Fault-tolerance features
include modular, load-sharing, hot-swappable power supplies; modular, hot-swappable fan
trays; and hot-swappable GBIC transceivers. You can install a second power supply for
added power redundancy.
The 3Com Switch 4050 features integrated media flexibility, supporting a variety of
cabling plants and network topologies at the core of the network. An expansion slot can
accommodate an additional four-port gigabit module for even greater flexibility.
- Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality—such as
multicast filtering, enhanced QoS/CoS services, virtual LANs, and multilayer traffic
classification and prioritization—provides network-wide traffic control
- 3Com-developed ASIC architecture delivers 56 Gbps multilayer
switching capacity per unit, wire-speed performance across all ports, and a forwarding
rate of more than 41 million pps
- Layer 3 switching capabilities—such as IP unicast using
static routes, RIP/RIPv2, and CIDR—help enhance performance,provide network control
and security, and enable routing between VLANs
- Support for 3Com XRN technology will let the enterprise
implement fault-tolerant, resilient links, Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1w),
seven groups of RMON, and e-mail alerts
- Security features like routed access control lists protect
sensitive network information and ensure that users have access to authorized resources
- Transparent webcache redirection enables web traffic to be
redirected automatically to a 3Com SuperStack 3 Webcache, easing administration
- Optional 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-LX and GBIC-based
expansion modules deliver four ports of high-performance, feature-rich switching over
copper or multimode fiber
- 3Com Network Supervisor, included with the switch, offers
discovery, mapping, monitoring, and alerting for easy network administration
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