Figure 7 Baystack 420 Switch Used As A Segment Switch; Chapter 2 Network Configuration - Nortel 1000ASE-XD Using Manual

Figure 7 BayStack 420 Switch used as a segment switch

Before
10BASE-T hubs
Server
To
Network
Center
Key
10 Mb/s
100 Mb/s
1000 Mb/s
- 88 users share 10 Mb/s (10/88 Mb/s per user)
- Server bottleneck (10 Mb/s bandwidth)
- Network center bottleneck (10 Mb/s bandwidth)
-Total of 88 users
BayStack 420
To
Up to
Network
88 users
Center
- Three sets of 23 users; each set shares 10 Mb/s
(10/23 Mb/s per user)
- Addition of 21 users; each with dedicated
100 Mb/s bandwidth
- Server with dedicated 100 Mb/s bandwidth
- Network center with dedicated 1 Gb/s full-duplex bandwidth
- Total of 89 users

Chapter 2 Network configuration

After
Using the BayStack 420 10/100/1000 Switch
47
Server
Up to 20
users
Up to 23
users
Up to 23
users
Up to 23
users
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