Aruba 6300F Series Installation And Getting Started Manual page 34

The switch also works well as a segment switch. That is, with its high performance, it can be used for
interconnecting network segments. Simply connect the network hubs that form those segments to the
switch or you can also connect other switches.
In the preceding illustration, two fast Ethernet hubs with PCs, printers, and local servers attached, are both
connected to a switch. The devices attached to the two hubs can now communicate with each other
through the switch. They can also all communicate with the server that is connected to a 1000Base-T port
on the switch.
Because the switch has the IEEE Auto MDI/MDI-X features, the connections between the switch and the
hubs, and between the switch and end nodes or servers, can be through category 5 straight-through or
crossover twisted-pair cable.
SmartRate speeds 2.5G/5G requires Category 5e cable.
If the connection is 10 Mbps only, then category 3 or 4 cable can also be used. In all cases, the device ports
must be configured to auto negotiate the link characteristics for this feature to work.
The switch, in turn, can be connected to a network backbone through fiber-optic cabling connected to a
Gigabit-SX, -LX, or -LH transceiver installed in the switch. Now, all the devices on these network segments
can access other network resources that are connected elsewhere on the network backbone.
Figure 3 Example as a Segment Switch Implementing PoE
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