Intel Express 100BASE-TX User Manual page 51

Wiring closet
160.8 m
Stack of
100BASE-T hubs
100 m
100BASE-T workstations
Collision domain 1
100 meter Category 5 UTP
160.8 meter fiber
100BASE-T network topology of 521.6 meters
You can extend the 100BASE-T network topology further by
interconnecting the switches using fiber links. Interconnecting two
switches creates a network that contains four separate collision
domains. The overall network topology grows while each collision
domain can be modeled after the extended collision domains
illustrated in previous two illustrations.
The next illustration shows how two separate 100BASE-T networks,
each supporting different workgroups in different physical locations,
are interconnected using a 2-km fiber link.
521.6 m total network topology
100BASE-TX
switching hub
160.8 m
100BASE-T workstations
Collision domain 2
Stack of
100BASE-T
hubs
100 m
5872.2