3Com CoreBuilder 2500 User Manual page 46

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HAPTER RIDGING AND OUTING IN THE ORE UILDER YSTEM
Connecting
Connecting
enterprise Router
subnets to the
networks
enterprise
FDDI backbone
Marketing
Sales
Router
Router
Engineering
Router
Bridge Bridge Bridge Bridge Bridge
Figure 3-1 Traditional Routing Architecture
CoreBuilder 2500 in a With the CoreBuilder 2500 system, you fit Ethernet switching capability
Subnetworked into subnetworked environments. When you put the CoreBuilder 2500
Environment system into such a network, the system streamlines your network
architecture by routing traffic between subnetworks and switching within
subnetworks. See Figure 3-2.
Router
FDDI backbone
Sales
Engineering
Marketing
CoreBuilder™ 2500 CoreBuilder™ 2500
Figure 3-2 CoreBuilder 2500 Subnetwork Routing Architecture