Allied Telesis Connecting To Network Backbone or Server, Stacking and the AT-9724TS

AT-9724TS	Power	1
	Master Link
	1000

Console Act

1000

RPS Link 2

Act

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23

3	5	7	9	11	13	15	17	19	21	23	SIO	Stack ID
											1												21	22	23	24
4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	2
												2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24

Optical fibre cable

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23

AT-9724TS	Power	1
	Master Link
	1000

Console Act

1000

RPS Link 2

Act

3	5	7	9	11	13	15	17	19	21	23	SIO	Stack ID
											1												21	22	23	24
4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	2
												2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24

Figure 3- 3. Switch connected to switch using fibre-optic cabling

3-3 Connecting To Network Backbone or Server

The 4 combo SFP ports and the 24 1000T ports are ideal for uplinking to a network backbone, server or server farm.The copper ports operate at a speed of 1000, 100 or 10Mbps in full or half duplex mode.The fibre-optic ports can operate at 1000Mbps in full duplex mode only.

Connections to the Gigabit Ethernet ports are made using fibre-optic cable or Category 5e copper cable, depending on the type of port. A valid connection is indicated when the Link LED is lit.

3-4 Stacking and the AT-9724TS

The AT-9724TS is equipped with two 10-gigabit stacking ports at the rear of the Switch, as seen in Figure 3-5.These stacking ports may be used to stack the AT- 9724TS to a master switch to be used in a switch stack.

Figure 3- 5. SIO 1 and SIO 2 Stacking ports at the rear of the AT-9724TS

These two stacking ports, named SIO 1 and SIO 2 can be used with other stacking switches for a scalable stacking solution of up to 288 ports in a ring topology. These two stacking ports have corresponding LEDs at the front of the Switch, labelled SIO 1 and SIO 2 will light solid green whenever the corresponding port is in use.

Figure 3- 6. Stacking LEDs (SIO) at the front of the AT-9724TS

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