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Article: 3Com pushes Layer 4 switching to wiring closet.(3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 4400 SE)(Product Announcement)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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3Com last week released a new workgroup switch that could help IT shops interested in deploying Layer 4 traffic prioritization right now or in the near future.
SuperStack 3 Switch 4400 SE could be deployed as a regular Layer 2 Ethernet switch for connecting desktops to a LAN or upgraded to a Layer 4 switch that could be used to enforce business polices, such as server and application port access.
The box comes with 24 ports of 10/100M bit/sec Ethernet and one slot for a fiber or copper Gigabit Ethernet uplink port. The switch supports standard Layer 2 Ethernet virtual LAN and traffic prioritization with 802.1Q and 802.1p, respectively.
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