Is 2.5 MultiGigabit just a cisco thing, or fine in a 10G port ?

[BaldwinA]

Cisco Meraki access points show as having options of

   1 × 2.5 Gbps Multigigabit Ethernet port

   1 × 5 Gbps Multigigabit Ethernet port

Do these play happily with a 10G netgear port on an M4300 series switch ?

or will the netgear only do 10G or 1G speeds on the port and not these

intermediate speeds ?

[LaurentMa]

Hi,

Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T) requires Multi-Gigabit Ethernet support on the port for the switch. 10GBASE-T ports are not always capable of doing Multi-Gigabit Ethernet, sometimes they only can do 100BASE-T, 1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T as stated in the M4300 datasheet.

Two M4300 models offer Multi-Gigabit 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T support on their 10G copper ports: the M4300-96X and the new M4300-16X. 

For your access points, you should select one of these two switches for Multi-Gigabit speeds. 

I hope this helps,