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Chapter 1 Introduction of the Product

Thank you for choosing the TL-SG1005D/TL-SG1008D 5/8-port

Gigabit Desktop Switch.

1.1 Overview of the Product

TL-SG1008D 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-

SG1005D/TL-SG1008D 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-SG1005D/TL-SG1008D switch is plug-and-play. In

addition, the Auto-MDI/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-SG1005D/TL-SG1008D 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.