American Power Conversion AP9615 manual Product Description continued, with a crossover cable

Product Description continued

Station ports The Station ports are the first 4 RJ-45ports, which are labeled 1X – 4X. The Station ports use straight-through UTP cables to connect the hub with:

•Workstations or other non-hub devices that you want to include in your network.

•The Uplink port of another hub in a cascading config- uration.

Note: A Station port acts as an Uplink port when it is used

			with a crossover cable.
Uplink port	The Uplink port is normally used in either of the following
	ways, as shown in Figure 2.
		➊					To	➋
						Corporate LAN
				1X	2X 3X 4X Uplink				1X 2X 3X 4X Uplink

straight-through cable

crossover cable

Figure 2: Dual Use of the Uplink Port

™Connected in cascade with a Station port of another hub or switching device, using a straight-through cable.

šConnected to a workstation or other non-hub device, using a crossover cable.

Communication	The hub requires a category 3, 4, or 5 UTP 10Base-T com-
cables	munication cable for each device to be attached.

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