Figure 9. A Simple Application Of The Switch - Olicom CrossFire 8600 Manual To Operations

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Figure 9. A Simple Application of the Switch

Some large, multisegment, hierarchical Token-Ring networks experience
congestion at the campus backbone level. Although this congestion can often be
relieved by converting the backbone to a higher speed, shared-media protocol or by
installing additional bridges or dual backbones to eliminate bottlenecks, the
CrossFire 8600 switch and/or the CrossFire 8605 switch offer dedicated-media that
might be longer lived or more economical if you eventually need higher demand
applications.
Figure 10 on the next page illustrates a typical network without the CrossFire 8600
or the CrossFire 8605 switch. This network is a three-level, hierarchical, campus
network. Figure 11 and Figure 12 offer several alternatives for using
the CrossFire 8600 or the CrossFire 8605 switch.
CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641
Servers
CrossFire 8600
CrossFire
OK TX RX INS
STACK-LINK
OK
ERR
ERR ACT
TX RX ATTACH 1 2 3 4 1
MANAGEMENT PWR DIAG ERR RST
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
TOKEN-RING SWITCH OC-8600
TX RX INS TX RX INS TX RX INS
ACT ACT ACT
2 3 4
16 17 18 19 20
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