Cabling The Stack Ports; Figure 4-7 Stack Ports; Figure 4-8 A Five Switch Stack - Hatteras HN4000 Hardware Installation Manual

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Cabling 2BASE-TL Ports
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Cabling the Stack Ports

Two‐to‐five HN4000 switches can be connected to create an HN4000 Virtual Node
(HN4000VN), also called a stack. From the user/network point‐of‐view, a stack appears as a
single switch, which can be managed via a single IP address. Other stacking features include:
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support for up to 200 PMEs (in a five‐switch stack)
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sharing of uplinks, and multiple uplinks per stack
❒ full resiliency for both control and data plane
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cross‐switch bonding with fail‐over Segmentation and Reassembly (SAR)
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dynamic service connections for cross‐switch switching
The HN4000 Stack Ports (Figure
HN4000 Virtual Node (HN4000VN).
Figure 4-7 Stack Ports
Figure 4‐8 shows an example of a five‐switch HN4000VN stack with stacking cables.
Figure 4-8 A Five Switch Stack
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4‐7) are used to connect HN4000i switches to create an
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