Avaya 1000 Installation And Commissioning Manual page 48

Overview
with a Layer 2 switch. Avaya recommends distributed connections; support is available for
nondistributed connections if the cost of the additional data networking equipment is an issue.
The CE and CT ports on the are the only embedded Ethernet ports that allow a direct connection to
another device, and the only hardware supported for this direct connection are CP PM or CP DC
card Ethernet ports.
The following Gateway Controller network configuration examples are shown with an MGC card and
a CP PM Server. You can also use a CP DC or COTS Server with a MGC card. The CP MG card
functions as the Gateway Controller and the Server.
The figure below shows the supported configuration for a single Server configuration without
redundant network configurations. This is the standard configuration of a cost effective single Server
configuration.
Figure 10: Single Server port network connections (no dual-homing)
The following figure illustrates a typical network configuration that supports the dual-homed feature.
With this configuration, however, a single Layer 2 switch remains a single point of failure.
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