Switch Standards

DarkZeroThirtee,

Welcome to the community! :)

What LAN standards is it backward compatible with?
I have only found information containing 1 GbT and 10 GbT. Is that true?

The 10GBASE-T is backward compatible with Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet.  As reference, read pages 1 and 4 of the XS708T Data Sheet here. 

Which 802 standard should it support?

The XS708T supports the following standards:

a. IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet

b. IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging

c. IEEE 802.3ad - LAGs (LACP)

d. IEEE 802.3x (full duplex and flow control)

e. IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol

f. IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

g. IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

h. IEEE 802.1x RADIUS port access authentication
i. IEEE 802.1p COS

j. IEEE 802.3 Ethernet

k. IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-T

l. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T

m.IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T 10Gbps Ethernet Over Copper Twisted Pair Cable

n. IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet Over Fiber (10GBASE-LRM) -

o. IEEE 802.3ae 10-Gigabit Ethernet Over Fiber (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, 10GBASE-LX4)

p. IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-SX/LX

Besides 1 GbT and 10 GbT, the 5 GbT standard is especially important for me

If you need a 5GBase-T port, you may want to consider the MS510TX and MS510TXPP as well as the XS512EM and XS724EM switches.  Both of the MS510TX and MS510TXPP switches have 1-port RJ-45 10 Gigabit Ethernet Copper (100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T).  Whereas all RJ-45 copper ports of both of the XS512EM and XS724EM switches supports 5GBase-T.  For more information, kindly check their respective data sheets below:

MS510TX / MS510TXPP Data Sheet

XS512EM / XS724EM Data Sheet

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DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team