Overview
The Intel
®
NetStructure
™
480T routing switch uses a powerful, full-
featured software operating system for local management of the switch.
This chapter offers an overview of the switch operation and covers these
topics:
• Summary of features
• Software licensing
• Hardware specifications and factory defaults
• Media types
Summary of Features
The features of the 480T routing switch include:
• Virtual local area networks (VLANs) including support for IEEE
802.1Q and IEEE 802.1p (priority queuing)
• VLAN aggregation
• Spanning Tree
Protocol (STP) (IEEE 802.1D) with multiple STP
domains
• Policy-Based Quality of Service (PB-QoS)
• Wire-speed IP routing
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