TP-Link TL-SG105 User Guide - Page 7

Chapter 1 Introduction of the Product Thank you for choosing the TL-SG105/TL-SG108 5/8-port Gigabit Desktop Switch. 1.1 Overview of the Product Powered by the Gigabit Ethernet technology, TL-SG105/TL-SG108 Gigabit Desktop Switch provides the seamless network connection, which can speed up your old network to 1000Mbps, ensuring the graphics, CGI, CAD, or multimedia files and other applications with bandwidth-intensive files transferred across the network almost instantly. The non-blocking switching architecture adopted in the TL-SG105/ TL-SG108 switch greatly improves network response times as well as significantly speed up the traffic between subnets by forwarding and filtering packets at full wire-speed for maximum throughput. The TL-SG105/TL-SG108 switch is plug-and-play. In addition, the AutoMDI/MDIX cable detection on all ports eliminates the demand of crossover cable or Uplink port. Each port can be used as general ports or Uplink ports, and any port can be simply plugged into a server, a hub, a router, a switch or a PC, using the straight cable or crossover cable. Diagnostic LEDs which display link status and activity, allowing you to quickly detect and correct problems on the network. The TL-SG105/TL-SG108 switch adopts Green Ethernet technology, supports power saving features. The switch automatically powers down the ports that have no link or are connected to the computers which have been shut down, budgets power output for different Ethernet cable lengths. 2