3Com 2500 manual 1 Traditional Architecture of a Routed Network

3-2 CHAPTER 3: BRIDGING AND ROUTING IN THE LANPLEX® SYSTEM

Connecting
enterprise	Router
networks
		FDDI Backbone
Sales		Engineering
Router
		Router
Bridge	Bridge	Bridge

Connecting subnets to the enterprise

RouterMarketing

Bridge Bridge

Figure 3-1 Traditional Architecture of a Routed Network

LANplex in a The LANplex system allows you to fit Ethernet switching capability into Subnetworked highly subnetworked environments. When you put the LANplex system Environment into such a network, the system streamlines your network architecture

and easily switches traffic between and within subnets over Ethernet and FDDI. See Figure 3-2.

	Router
	FDDI backbone
Sales	LANplex®
	Engineering	LANplex®	Marketing

Figure 3-2 Subnetted Architecture with LANplex® Switching Hubs