Hardware Lab Tasks Analysis - Assignment Example

I have received Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series which is a network switch.

The equipment is manufactured by Cisco and its model no is WS-C3550-48-SMI.

The MAC address of the equipment is 000F:23:23:2F:00.

The equipment has two fast Ethernet in/out ports. On the other hand, the equipment has 48 connectivity Ethernet ports. One power supply port is also there. Two ports are for the serial out and serial in.

The equipment does not allow the users to install any add-on modules.

I got a Cisco 2600 series Multiservice Platform which is a Modular multiservice access router that provides flexible LAN or Ethernet configuration.

The equipment is manufactured by Cisco Systems and its model number is CISCO 2621XM.

The equipment has one Auxiliary port, One ETHRENT 0/0 10 base-T port (RJ-45), one Ethernet 0/1 10 base-T port (RJ-45). On the other hand, the link and act LED indicators show the process of communication.

The equipment also allows the users to install more Ethernet interface cards.

Task 1: 10 GbE is still in its infancy stages, so the specifications of the various media and interfaces are still in development. Using various resources such as the textbook and the Internet, research and document the following implementations of IO GbE: