Technical Overview
- Connection speeds from 2Mb – 1Gb
- Maximum layer 2 frame size: from 1596 Bytes – 1950 Bytes
- IEEE 802.3 framing format
- Physical presentation (MDI) via RJ45, SC/PC - LC/PC ( optical only)
- Physical interfaces 10BaseT, 100BaseTX, 1000Base SX / LX / LH / ZX / T
- Maximum of 50 MAC addresses per endpoint
Quality of Service
- Sapphire Networks implement a class of service classification system for data traffic passing through the connection
- The customer must tag their packets upon entering the circuit with the relevant CoS value
- 802.1q tagged frames will be based on the 802.1p bit in the VLAN header
- DSCP code-point values will be used for non VLAN tagged frames
- Unmarked traffic is set by default to Best Effort service
Additional benefits
Sapphire’s service supports 802.1q tag re-writing so that VLAN numbering can be flexible.
Single VLAN or Multiple VLAN service is available.
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