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HP ProCurve Switch 1700-24
By VARINDIA - 2010-03-31
The ProCurve Switch 1700 series is the newest addition to the ProCurve Web-managed range. This is ideal for businesses making the transition from unmanaged to managed networks. The ProCurve Switch 1700 series consists of two switches. The ProCurve Switch 1700-24 is a 24-port switch with 22 10/100 ports plus dual-personality ports. ProCurve Switch 1700-24 is ideal for deployment in open spaces, both switches feature silent operation via a fan-less design. The ProCurve Switch 1700 series enables increased network capabilities without added complexity. ProCurve Switch offers a couple of simple, low-cost Fast Ethernet switches with basic web-management features.
Features:
ProCurve Switch 1700-24 comes with IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): provides link-level redundancy. The ProCurve Switch 1700-24 is a 24-port switch with 22 10/100 ports plus dual-personality ports. ProCurve Switch 1700-24
comes with Port mirroring feature, which enables traffic on a port to be simultaneously sent to a network analyzer for monitoring.
ProCurve Switch 1700-24 supports Layer 2 switching. It supports up to 64 port-based VLANs and dynamic
configuration of IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, providing security between workgroups.
The ProCurve Switch 1700 comes with inbuilt Security feature, which provides security so that only authorized access to the Web browser interface is allowed.
For the 1700-24, you get a full complement of 24 Fast Ethernet ports, but for Gigabit uplinks the last two are dual personality and
share the backplane connection with two SFP ports. For the latter, HP offers SX, LX and LH mini-GBIC modules for long-distance connections over fibre-optic cabling. The status LEDs are the same for both switches, with a small matrix to one side showing link status and activity, and another showing connection speeds, although the LED does not differentiate between Fast Ethernet and Gigabit links.
The switches ship with a default IP address, and the web-management interface is password protected. Those familiar with HP’s common ProCurve interface for its web-managed switches will be disappointed, as that offered by the 1700 switches is a lot more basic. It opens with a status screen showing general switch details, along with a table of information about the ports and their connection speeds. The switches are SNMP compliant, so you can change information about their name, location and contact, while a rate-limit function allows you to set available bandwidth for broadcasts and multicasts.
The general switch features are comparatively basic, but there is still a lot that probably won’t be used. You can hard set a port’s speed and duplex mode if you wish and Port trunking allows multiple ports to be placed in single high-speed links for switch-to-switch
connections, and you can mirror data from one to another where a network analyzer has been connected. Of more value is the support for 802.1q VLANs and the ability to preserve 802.1p packet prioritization, which will allow them to slot into larger networks as edge devices.
These managed Fast Ethernet switches may initially look good value, but alternatives from Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and
SMC are just as affordable. One of the HP’s biggest selling points is its lifetime warranty, whereas the competition stretches to five years. Although if you are running Fast Ethernet that far in the future, you will definitely be a laggard.
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