Enhancing The Performance Of Your Network - 3Com SuperStack 3C17300 Implementation Manual

Enhancing the
Performance of Your
Network
1000 Mbps with
aggregated links
set up
1000 Mbps link blocked
by Spanning Tree Protocol
Switch 4900
Figure 26 shows how you can set your network up to enhance its
performance.
All ports are auto-negotiating and smart auto-sensing and will therefore
pass data across the network at the optimum available speed and duplex
mode. Flow control will help avoid packet loss during periods of network
congestion. A Gigabit Ethernet backbone is set up between the Switch
4900 and each Switch in the workgroups to increase the bandwidth, and
therefore the overall network performance.
Figure 26 Network set up to enhance performance
Switch 4200 Series unit
Stack of four Switch 4200 Series units
100 Mbps
1000 Mbps
Advanced Network Configuration Examples
10/100 Mbps connections
Production Workgroups
10/100 Mbps connections
Administrative Workgroups
1000 Mbps connections
with resilient links set up
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Endstations on
Endstations on
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