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Introducing the Switch
Front of the Switch
Table 1-2. HP 2530 24-port and 48-port switches with SFP+ uplink ports
Labels and Description
Network Ports
■ 24 or 48 auto-sensing 10/100/1000BASE-T ports.
All these ports have the “Auto-MDIX” feature, which means that you can
use either straight-through or crossover twisted-pair cables to connect
any network devices to the switch.
■ Two SFP+ slots for fiber or copper uplinks (24-port and 48-port Gigabit
Ethernet switches).
LEDs
On these Switches, there are three groupings of LEDs:
■ switch status LEDs (Table 1-3)
■ port LEDs (Table 1-4)
■ Port LED Mode indicator LEDs (near the selector button) (Table 1-5)
Label Description
1 Power, Fault, and Locator LEDs
2 Test and Status LEDs
3 Switch port LEDs
4 SFP+ slots
5 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports
6 LED Mode select button and indi-
cator LEDs
7 Reset and Clear buttons
8 Console Port