Allied Telesis AT-8116 - Manual (Page 17)

AT-8116 Installation Guide
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Configuring Your Network
Links Between Switches
An Ethernet to Fast Ethernet switch offers the network administrator
a possible upgrade path. At first, the switch can be used simply to
segment the existing 10Mbps Ethernet, immediately boosting
performance. Next, with the addition of a Fast Ethernet NIC, a file
server can be migrated to Fast Ethernet, increasing its availability. As
needed, additional file servers or individual users can be moved to Fast
Ethernet, while leaving all other parts of the network running 10Mbps
as usual. If some of the shared Ethernet segments are still congested,
but don’t warrant a full 100Mbps, additional switches can further
divide the shared segments, creating a collapsed 100Mbps backbone
and small switched 10Mbps segments.
Fast Ethernet provides 10 times the bandwidth than regular Ethernet.
Software, except for low-level drivers which are always card specific,
works with Fast Ethernet without modification. Frames from a device
using Fast Ethernet require only physical layer conversion. The
AT-8116 combines switched 10/100Mbps technology in a seamless
integration of regular Ethernet and the IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX
standard.
Device Configuration
The AT-8116 provides CLI management. The switch can autosense the
speed for each port. However, the switch must be manually configured
for the correct duplex mode.
For full information on configuring the AT-8116, see the AT-8116
User’s Guide on our website at www.alliedtelesyn.com/
manuals.htm .