PLANET WGSW-2620, the security switch, is a 24-Port 10/100Mbps with 2 GbE copper ports and two-shared SFP/copper GbE interface Ethernet Switch. It boasts a high performance switch architecture that is capable of providing non-blocking switch fabric and wire-speed throughput as high as 8.8Gbps. Its two built-in GbE uplink ports also offer incredible extensibility, flexibility and connectivity to the Core switch or Servers.

PLANET WGSW-2620 is loaded with powerful traffic management and QoS features to enhance services offered by telcos. It provides 4 priority queues per port for different types of traffics, allowing administrators to set policies for classified filtering and rule-based rate limitation. The WGSW-2620 prioritizes applications with WFQ (Weighted Fair Queuing) scheduling algorithm to allocate more bandwidth to key traffics such as voice transmission, empowering the enterprise to take full advantages of the limited network resources and guarantee the best performance.

The security switch offers comprehensive Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. Its protection mechanisms comprised of port-based 802.1x user and device authentication. The administrators can now construct highly secured corporate networks with time and effort considerably less then before.

With its built-in web-based management, the PLANET WGSW-2620 offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. WGSW-2620 supports standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and can be managed via any standard-based management software. For text-based management, the WGSW-2620 can also be accessed via Telnet and the console port. For secured remote management, the WGSW-2620 support SSL and SSH connection which encrypt the packet content at each session.

• 24 10/100 auto-negotiation ports and 2 Gigabit TP/SFP Combo ports
• Supports half duplex and full duplex modes and auto-negotiation for all 10BaseT/100BaseTX/1000BaseT ports
• MDI/MDI-X auto-sense on all ports and IEEE 802.3ab Auto MDI/MDI-X on all 100/1000 twisted-pair ports
• Supports up to four Class of Server (CoS) queues per egress port
• Implements two mechanisms, cell-based HOL blocking and packet-based HOL blocking, to prevent Head of Line Blocking on a per-port basis
• Supports a packet aging mechanism, which allows the switch to discard a packet residing in the packet memory. The packet age limit is programmable and has maximum time duration of approximately 515 seconds
• Supports mechanisms to handle backpressure allowing for flexible flow control on packet transactions. The limit at which backpressure is detected is based on the amount of memory utilized by the packets on an input port. This limit is programmable on a per-port basis
• Provides programmable threshold limits to prevent packets from flooding into other parts of the network. Three types of packet can be monitored and separate counters are maintained for each type of packet
• Full compliant with the IEEE 802.1D spanning tree support specifications
• Supports the IEEE 802.1s specification for multiple spanning trees on a single port (spanning tree per VLAN)
• Supports the IEEE 802.1p specification for traffic class expediting and dynamic multicast filtering support (Class of Service, or CoS)
• Supports the IEEE 802.1Q Specification for Virtual Bridged Local Area Network
• Provides a mechanism by which up to eight ports of the same speed can be bundled together to form a port bundle or a trunk group. Up to six trunk groups can be established
• Supports inclusive and exclusive filtering to enable a switch application to filter and classify packets based on certain protocol fields in the packet
• Supports mirroring to monitor the incoming or outgoing traffic on a particular port
• SSL / SSH, secured layer management access through http, and telnet
• ACL (Access Control List) for secured packet-based access