Cabling The Switch - Allied Telesis AT-GS950/8 Installation Manual

Cabling the Switch

Observe the following guidelines when connecting twisted pair and fiber
optic cables to the ports on the switch:
The connector on the cable should fit snugly into the port on the
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switch. The tab on the connector should lock the connector into place.
Because the twisted pair ports have auto-MDI/MDI-X, you may use
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straight-through twisted pair cable to connect any type of network
device to the switch.
If your network topology contains a loop where two or more network
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devices can communicate with each other over more than one network
path, do not connect the network cables that form the loop until after
you activate a spanning tree protocol on the switch. Data loops can
adversely affect network performance.
If you are creating a port trunk, do not connect the cables of the trunk
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to the switch until after you have created the trunk in the switch's
management software. Otherwise, a network loop will result which can
adversely affect network performance.
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