The EdgeIron family of 10/100 and 10/100/1000 switches delivers interface flexibility, wire-speed performance, superior port density, and a complete standard Layer 2 feature set to address the mid-range needs of enterprise users. Only 1 rack unit high, the EdgeIron family is an excellent choice for wiring closet, small backbone, server farm and desktop applications in high-performance local area networks. The EdgeIron is easy to configure and maintain and offers a cost-effective and high-performance Layer 2 solution for enterprise network deployments.The EdgeIron 10GC2F features ten ports of RJ-45-based Gigabit Ethernet over copper (1000BaseT) and up to 2 GBIC fiber uplink ports and provides a powerful combination of efficiency and flexibility for server aggregation, workgroup backbone upgrades, or Gigabit to the desktop migration. Auto-sensing 10/100/1000 Gigabit over Copper ports allow users to scale network and server performance to Gigabit Ethernet speeds over existing category 5 cabling. This provides cost-effective, high-bandwidth connectivity, with 10 times the throughput of existing technologies such as Fast Ethernet or FDDI.