the des-1048g is a stand-alone unmanaged switch. it is equipped with forty-eight ports providing dedicated 10 or 100 mbps bandwidth. these ports can be used for connecting pcs, servers, and hubs. the forty-eight dual speed ports use standard twisted-pair cabling and are ideal for segmenting networks into small, connected subnets. each port can support up to 200 mbps of throughput in full duplex mode. in addition, the switch is equipped with two gigabit (gbic) fiber optic uplink ports enabling convenient access to a server or network backbone for all the clients served by the switch. this stand-alone switch enables the network to use some of the most demanding multimedia and imaging applications concurrently with other user applications without creating bottlenecks. the built-in console interface can be used to individually configure each port for speed, full or half duplex operation, and ieee 802.3x flow control in full duplex mode.