About the Product

APPLICATION

When installed in a Campus-RS Desktop Unit or Campus-Star chassis, the Campus-REX functions as a remote bridge or static IP router.

You can use the Campus-REX to extend subnetworks to remote sites within a campus. Or, for sites separated by greater distances, you can use the Campus-REX to connect them through a public T1/E1 Wide Area Network (WAN). See “Point-to-Point LAN Extension” and “LAN Connections Over a WAN” on page 1-7for more information.

Campus-REX software provides complete main bridging tasks of learning, forwarding, filtering, and hashing/buffer management, 802.1d Spanning Tree protocol, 802.3 drivers, packet sequencing, segmentation and reassembly, and other local tasks. The Campus-REX is specifically designed for 10BASE-T LANs that use unshielded twisted pair (UTP) segments with reach of more than 100 meters and that require low-cost, high performance connectivity.

The Campus-REX performs full-bandwidth filtering on the 10BASE-T port, and forwarding at the selected transmission rate.

Point-to-Point LAN Extension

As organizations move or change, LANs also evolve and may become fragmented or physically separated. The Campus-REX provides a lower-cost alternative to other LAN-extension solutions. The Campus-REX provides a built-in 10BASE-T LAN interface that eliminates the need for other internetworking devices while providing 30 times the performance of other sub-rate wireless connectivity options, as shown in the following figure.

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Campus-REX RS Interface Card User Manual