Sample Applications For The Crossfire 8600 And The Crossfire 8605; Figure 8. Typical Lan Segmentation - Olicom CrossFire 8600 Manual To Operations

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Sample Applications for the CrossFire 8600 and
the CrossFire 8605
The CrossFire 8600 and/or the CrossFire 8605 switch allows you to make
incremental changes in your network to address both immediate and long-range
performance challenges. For example, a Token-Ring LAN of 80 stations including
4 servers might experience performance problems as a result of increased traffic.
As it is currently structured, the LAN looks like the one in Figure 8.
19 Workstations
19 Workstations

Figure 8. Typical LAN Segmentation

All of the stations are attached to access units located in a single wiring closet. You
can install an switch in the same wiring closet and divide the LAN into 4 segments
of 20 stations each. One access-unit port from each segment will be connected to a
port on the switch via a patch cable. Finally, the four servers are removed from the
access units to which they have been attached and their cables moved to four ports
on the switch (as depicted in Figure 9).
Each group of 19 users attached to an access unit now shares a dedicated, 16 Mbps
path to the server. Each server has a dedicated, 16 Mbps path upon which to service
requests. The overall capacity of this solution is 64 Mbps; network capacity has
increased fourfold.
CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641
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