3Com 3824 - Advanced Network Configuration Examples; Improving the Resilience of Your Network

Advanced Network Configuration Examples 81
Advanced Network
Configuration
Examples
This section shows some network examples that illustrate how you can
set up your network for optimum performance using some of the
features supported by your Switch.
Improving the
Resilience of Your
Network
Figure 22
shows how you can set up your network to improve its
resilience using Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and aggregated links also
Aggregated links increase bandwidth available and also provide extra
resilience.
Figure 22 Network set up to provide resilience
Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
1000 Mbps
100 Mbps
Servers on
1000 Mbps connections
with resilient links set up
1000 Mbps with
aggregated links
set up
Server on
1000 Mbps connection
with resilient links set up
Server on
1000 Mbps connection
with resilient links set up
Core Switch
Stack of four Switch 4200 units
Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
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Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
Stack of four Switch 4200 units
Endstations on
10/100 Mbps connections
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