GS2210 Series User’s Guide
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CHAPTER 1
Getting to Know Your Switch
1.1 Introduction
This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the Switch. The GS2210 Series
consist of the four following models:
• GS2210-24
• GS2210-24HP
• GS2210-48
• GS2210-48HP
Referring to PoE model(s) in this User's Guide only applies for GS2210-24HP and GS2210-48HP.
The Switch is a layer-2 standalone Ethernet switch with additional layer-2, layer-3, and layer-4
features suitable for Ethernets.
With its built-in web configurator, including the ZyXEL One Network (ZON) Neighbor Management
feature (Section 7.3 on page 53), viewing, managing and configuring the Switch and its
neighboring devices is easy. The Switch can also be managed via Telnet, any terminal emulator
program on the console port, or third-party SNMP management.
In addition, ZyXEL offers a proprietary software program called ZyXEL One Network (ZON) Utility, it
is a utility tool that assists you to set up and maintain network devices in a more simple and
efficient way. You can download the ZON Utility at www.zyxel.com and install it on a PC. For more
information on ZON Utility see (Section 7.2 on page 52).
The following table describes the port features of the Switch by model.
The GS2210-24HP and GS2210-48HP comes with a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) feature. The
GS2210-24HP and 48HP supports the IEEE 802.3at High Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard and
IEEE 802.3af PoE standard.
Key feature differences between Switch models are as follows. Other features are common to all
models
Table 1 Models and Port Features
SWITCH MODEL PORT FEATURES
GS2210-24 and GS2210-
24HP
• 24 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports
• 4 GbE dual personality interfaces
GS2210-48 and GS2210-
48HP
• 44 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports
• 4 GbE dual personality interfaces
• 2 SFP interfaces
