Figure 9 Business Policy Switch Used As A Segment Switch - Nortel 2000 Using Manual

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Figure 9 Business Policy Switch used as a segment switch

Before
10BASE-T hubs
Server
To
Network
Center
Key
10 Mb/s
100 Mb/s
200 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
208700-B
Business Policy Switch 2000
To
Up to
Network
88 users
Center
- Four sets of 23 users; each set shares 10 Mb/s
(10/23 Mb/s per user)
- Addition of 22 users; each with dedicated
100 Mb/s bandwidth
- Server with dedicated 100 Mb/s bandwidth
- Network center with dedicated 100 Mb/s full-duplex bandwidth
(200 Mb/s bidirectional)
- Total of 114 users
After
Up to 22
Up to 23
Up to 23
Up to 23
Up to 23
Server
users
users
users
users
users
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