The des 1008d is an unmanaged 10100mbps switch designed to enhance small workgroup performance while providing a high level of flexibility the switch comes with 8 10100mbps ports allowing a small workgroup to flexibly connect to ethernet and fast ethernet and integrate these intelligent ports detect the network speed and auto negotiate between 100base tx and 10base t as well as between full and half duplex all ports support 8023x flow control this function minimizes dropped packets b