3Com Switches - Manual (Page 6)

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User running
multimedia
Floor 1
Basement
Floor 2
Floor 3
Switched 10 M
bps workgroup
Switched 10 M
bps
workgroup
Power users on
dedicated 100 Mbps
Print server on
100 M
bps
Server farm
Volume intranet
user on dedicated 10 Mbps
Transcend
® network
management console
SuperStack
® II system with
SuperStack II Switch 3300
and 1100
SuperStack II system with
SuperStack II Switch 1100
SuperStack II Switch 3300*
Type 2 ARPS and SuperStack II
Switch Layer 3 module
SuperStack II system
with SuperStack II
Switch 3300
Mixed/shared
100 M
bps
and 10 M
bps users
Printer on
10 Mbps
SuperStack II
Enterprise Monitor probe
* For fiber connectivity, use the
SuperStack II Switch 3300 FX.
100 Mbps
10 Mbps
Fast Ethernet LAN and WAN connectivity
A medium-sized corporation supporting a mixture of switched
and shared workgroups has a central Fast Ethernet backbone.
In the basement, a stack of SuperStack II Switch 3300s provides
Fast Ethernet 10/100 Mbps links to the floors and 10/100
connections for local servers, and it also provides the ability to
scale to Gigabit Ethernet when needed. The entire network is
managed at the Transcend network management console or
via Web-based management at any browser. Intranet traffic
is managed simply and cost effectively when a SuperStack II
Switch Layer 3 module is plugged into a SuperStack II
Switch 3300.
On the first floor, a stack of SuperStack II Switch 1100s provides
dedicated switched 10 Mbps for those users using simple appli-
cations such as mail.
On the second floor, the SuperStack II Dual Speed Hub 500 with
a mixture of 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps users is connected to a
switched 100 Mbps backbone via the data center SuperStack II
Switch 3300 stack.
On the third floor, a SuperStack II Switch 1100 and 3300 stack
provides dedicated switched 10 Mbps and 10/100 Mbps to
power users for transferring large files and multimedia traffic.