Amazon.ca Product Description The DSS-16+ offers an economical way for SOHO and small to medium businesses (SMB) to benefit from high-speed networking It provides up to sixteen ports for easy expansion of your network and a quick way to upgrade your network to Fast Ethernet connectivity The switch speeds up file transfer times improves slow and sluggish networks keeps your vital business applications available and helps your employees respond more quickly to customers and each other From the Manufacturer The D-Link DSS-16+ is a powerful desktop dual-speed 16-port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet/Fast Ethernet NWay auto-negotiating switch. Designed to bring switching to the small office and small business, the DSS-16+ delivers high-speed switching capabilities at a low price per port. The switch functionally eliminates unnecessary traffic and relieves data congestion by delivering dedicated bandwidth for each of the 16 ports. An individual port can connect to either an Ethernet or Fast Ethernet device, and n-way auto negotiation automatically determines the transmission speed of the attached device on each port.The DSS-16+ provides dynamic buffer allocation that employs network-load balancing for faster data handling. The uplink interface connection enables easy expansion. The DSS-16+ uses fast store-and-forward architecture to ensure low latency and high data integrity, and supports stacking through two MDI-II uplink shared ports.D-Link offers a lifetime warranty.