Figure 3-3. Example Of Switched Stacking - NETGEAR FS 517TS User Manual

• The FS524S Switch has two bi-directional stacking ports, which allow load-balanced,
fault-tolerant, redundant connections when cascaded with another FS524S Switch.
Up to eight FS524S Switches can be cascaded, providing up to 192 ports in a single
switched stack. The high-speed stacking ports deliver 4 Gbps of throughput across the
stacking back plane.
To add gigabit connectivity, two FS517TS Switches can be added to the stack to
create one large virtual switch with up to 224 stacked ports and two 1000BASE-T
ports. Since the FS517TS Switch has a single stacking port, adding it to a stack of
FS524S Switches reduces the stacking backplane speed to 2 Gbps and removes
support for load balancing, fault tolerance, and redundancy that a pure FS524S
stack has.
Internet
FR314 Router
Printer

Figure 3-3. Example of Switched Stacking

DSL modem
S
FS524 Switch
S
FS524 Switch
100 Mbps
FS517
PS113 Print Server
Printer
TS
FS517 Switch
TS
Switch
10 Mbps
PC PC PC
Servers
1000 Mbps
Servers
MAC
applications 3-3