3Com 16985ua.bk - Manual (Page 18)

18 C HAPTER 1: I NTRODUCING THE S WITCH 3300 MM
Switch 3300 MM as a
Collapsed Backbone
Switch
The example in Figure 4 shows how a Switch 3300 MM stack can act as a
backbone for both shared and switched network segments.
Figure 4 Using the Switch as a collapsed backbone
Switch 1100/3300
Endstations on
switched 10Mbps
connections
Endstations on switched
10Mbps connections Servers on dedicated
100Mbps connections
Switch 1100
Switch 1100
Dual Speed Hub 500
Dual Speed Hub 500
Endstations on
switched 10Mbps
connections
Endstations on
shared 10Mbps
and 100Mbps
connections
Endstations on
shared 10Mbps
and 100Mbps
connections
100Mbps
Switch 3300 MM
16985ua.bk Page 18 Thursday, September 7, 2000 9:15 AM