Say S2800-24T4F fanless gigabit managed 24 port switch with 4 combo SFP slots. Such access switch in the market often comes with copper switch with a few SFP/SFP+ port. Or in cases where network topology is not involved such as small office and home environment, normal switches may be used solely to connect end devices. What we mentioned normal switch is often an edge switch/access switch in the access layer of enterprise network. The switch stacking technology allows you to control the single stack to expand network capacity.įigure 1: FS S5900-24S 24 port 10GbE fiber switch is a routing Ethernet core switch with high-performance, high-security, and switch stacking technology, expanding your network to 418Gbps.
This fully managed fiber 10GbE switch supports a wide range of layer2/3, inter-VLAN routing, MPLS, QoS and many other high-end functionality, natural fit for core layer networking. Say FS S5900-24S 24 Port 10GE SFP+ stackable managed switch. Core switch is also equipped with layer 3 routing features, thus it kills two birds with one stone.Ĭore switch normal port speed is at least 10Gbps to handle high traffic on the uplink. In the core layer, switching is ending and routing is beginning. One feature on its hardware is that core switch is often a fiber switch to match with high-speed fiber optic cables and fiber optic transceiver modules. Since other 2 lower layers rely upon it, core layer switch must be a highly redundant and powerful layer 3 switch to ensure efficient high-speed and reliable data transmission. What Is Core Switch?Ĭore switch occupies in the topside layer of the enterprise networking (core layer), which functions as backbone switch for LAN access and centralizes multiple aggregation to the core. Today we will introduce core switch and what’s the difference between core switch vs normal switch. In my last post – What Is Distribution Switch and Why Do We Need it? – the role of distribution switch functioning multiple switch aggregation and inter-VLAN routing has been illustrated. As we know, there are normal access/edge layer switch, aggregation/distribution layer switch and core layer switch. Thus locating right switches in your three-layer architecture is the first step to set up a reliable hierarchical internetworking model. In enterprise network, network switch is always an indispensable component.
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