Chapter 5. Planning Your Network - Planet FGSW-008 User Manual

Chapter 5. Planning Your Network

This chapter provides you a few sample network topologies in
which the Switch is implemented:
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Modularized Switch Application
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Backbone Switch Application
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Departmental Bridge Application
Using a switch, such as a Switch, can expand network topology and
enhance network performance.
Each port on a switch connects to a separate network with its own
collision domain. Separating networks with this Switch allows you to
expand 10Base-TX or 100Base-TX networks.
The Switch also filters incoming traffic. On standard hubs and
repeaters, any data received on a port is forwarded to all of the other
ports. On switches, data received on one port is forwarded only to
the port of the destination device, and if the traffic is local, the data is
not forward at all. Also, switch can forward multiple data transaction
at once.
To expand your network topology or enhance network performance,
you can use the Switch as collapsed backbone or to increase file
server performance, to be segment large network, or to interconnect
Gigabit network.
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