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Review on ProCurve Switch 2610 Series
By webmaster | April 1, 2008
ProCurve’s Switch 2610 Series is an advanced stackable edge switches suitable for Medium and Large scale Businesses, with improved features for a better network connectivity. The ProCurve Switch 2610 Series consists of five switches—the 2610-24 and 2610-48 provide 24 and 48 ports of 10/100Base-TX connectivity. The 2610-24 has no fan, which makes it operable in open spaces with quiet operation. The 2610-24/12PWR, 2610-24-PWR, and 2610-48-PWR are IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) 802.3af-compliant for Power over Ethernet (PoE) and provide up to 15.4 W for 12, 24, and 48 ports. The 2610-24/12PWR has 24 10/100 ports and provides 12 ports of PoE. All the 5 switches include two 10/100/1000Base-T ports and 2 mini-GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter) slots for Gigabit uplink connectivity. An optional external power supply is also available which could be utilized at the time of power failures.
The 24 port models has the capability of achieving 9.5 million PPS (packets per second) performance, and the 48 port models are capable of achieving 13.0 million PPS, with a wire speed switching capacity at 12.8Gbps (24 port models) and 17.6Gbps (48 port models). The Switch can store upto 8000 MAC addresses.
The Switch is manageable thru 2 types of interfaces, one thru the CLI (Command Line Interface) and the other thru web browser (Java Supported).
The free software updates are available online and the product also comes with lifetime-warranty with replacements made Next-business Day in most countries. The 2610 - 24 Port Ethernet Switch is available in the price range of $479.00 - $486.00 and the 48 Port Ethernet Switch is available in the price range of $753.00 - $820.00 (price range source: shopping.com)
Topics: Networking |