It’s funny how I remember specifically my first experiences with a full Gigabit network. Around the time we started our LAN events, I upgraded our home network to gigabit. But it really was when after a few events that we finally had our whole event network running in that I finally got to experience the transfer speeds and at the time saturating it required more than one hard drive in raid and it was a huge improvement over 100 Megabit. But gigabit has been around now for a long time and in that time storage speeds have gone insane in comparison. For comparison, gigabit is 125 MB/s, and even a 5400 RPM hard drive today will do 147 MB/s. If you are just running your PC and the internet this is perfectly fine because your internet is still the limitation. But if you are transferring files over your network, especially to multiple PCs a 1G or gigabit network is a slowdown and with Intel now including 2.5G network cards in their Z490 chipset faster network speeds are a possibility for more and more people. Today I’m checking out the EnGenius ECS2512FP which supports 2.5G with POE as well as has the potential to run SFP+ transceivers for 10G as well. This combination makes it perfect for feeding our ECW230 WiFi 6 AP and could be a perfect backbone switch with 2.5G to servers and 10G to other switches for a LAN or business.
Product Name: EnGenius ECS2512FP Switch
Review Sample Provided by: EnGenius
Written by: Wes Compton
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Specifications |
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Port Standards |
802.3 10Base-T Ethernet 802.3u 100Base-TX Ethernet 802.3ab 1000Base-T Ethernet 802.3bz 2500Base-T Ethernet 802.3x Full-Duplex Flow Control |
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Network Ports |
8 10/100/1000/2500 Mbps Ports + 4x SFP+ Ports |
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Switching Capacity |
120Gbps |
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SDRAM |
512MB |
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Flash Memory |
128MB |
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PoE++ Capable Ports |
1-8 (802.3 af/at/bt) |
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Total PoE Budget |
240W |
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Power Source |
100 ~ 240VAC, 50-60Hz |
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LED Indicators |
Power LED Fault LED PoE Max LED LAN Mode LED PoE Mode LED |
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Ports |
Link/Activity/Speed (per Ethernet port) Link/Activity/Speed (per SFP slot) |
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L3 Features |
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Multiple IP Interface |
20 IPv6 address |
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ARP Table |
Max. 192 ARP entries |
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Static ARP |
Static 192 ARP entries |
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IPv4 Static Route |
Max. 63 entries |
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IPv6 Static Route |
Max. 21 entries |
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L2 Features |
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MAC Address Table |
16K |
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Jumbo Frame |
9K |
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Multicast Group |
Max 256 groups |
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MLD Snooping |
MLD Snooping: v1 |
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QoS-Number of Priority Queues Supported |
Queue 8 |
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Trust Mode |
Cos/802.1p DSCP CoS/802.1p-DSCP |
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Scheduling Mechanism |
Strict / WRR/ Strict + WRR |
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Bandwidth Control |
Port-based bandwidth control (Ingress/Egress) |
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Port Security |
Max. 256 Entries |
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Access Control List (ACL) |
MAC Based ACL IPv4/IPv6 Based ACL ACL Binding Time base ACL |
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Web Graphical User Interface(GUI) |
HTTP IPv4 / IPv6 HTTPS IPv4 / IPv6 |
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SSL Certificate |
Certificate/Key Import |
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SNMP |
SNMP v1/v2c/v3 Support |
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RMON |
RMON 1,2,3,9 |
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System Time |
Time Setting/Daylight saving |
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Common L2 Features |
802.1d Spanning tree Loopback Detection Multicast Filtering IGMP Multicast Forwarding IGMP Snooping MLD Multicast Forwarding 802.1Q VLAN tagging 802.3x flow control 802.3ad Link Aggregation IPv4 DHCP Relay IPv4 DHCP Snooping IPv4 DHCP Snooping Source MAC Address Check-up ARP Inspection ARP Packet Validation (additional validation checks) Voice VLAN Port-based VLAN Protocol-Based VLAN CoS Mapping 802. 1X Radius Authentication Protocol IPv4 Settings IPv6 Settings IEEE 802. 3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) Command Line Interface (CLI) SSH Server Telnet Server TFTP Client Configuration Upgrade/Backup Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) SYSLOG 802.1d Spanning tree |
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Environmental & Physical |
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Temperature Range |
Operating: 32°F to 122°F (0°C to 50°C) |
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Humidity (Non-Condensing) |
Operating: 5% - 95% |
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Package Contents |
1x Cloud Managed Multi-Gig PoE++ Switch 1x Quick Installation Guide 1x Power Cord 1x RJ45 Console Cable 1x Rack Mount Kit |
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ECS2512FP Device |
Weight: 5.7 lbs (2.6 kg) Width: 9.05” (230 mm) Length: 12.99” (330 mm) Height: 1.73” (44 mm) |
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Warranty |
2 years |
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Certifications |
CE FCC IC |
