Cabletron Systems STS16-20D, STS16-20R manual Switch of Floors and Buildings, Switch of Routers

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network management statistics. Total network capacity and throughput increase dramatically for attached desktop workstations.

Switch of Floors and Buildings

For network managers, multistorey buildings and campuses can represent a unique networking challenge. How can a network manager provide an efficient LAN interconnect for users that are located on several floors of a building or in different buildings?

Token Ring switching and the SmartStack product family can provide the best solution. The SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R provides enhanced throughput to local wiring closets that can be connected to a switch located in the data center.

Many networks consist of users located in different buildings of a campus environment. The switches can be used as a collapsed backbone interconnecting multiple buildings of a campus. They can provide the connectivity solution and enhanced throughput that such campus environments require.

Switch of Routers

Router technology has had a significant impact on the design of today’s internetworks. Routers have become the cornerstone of most production networks. Although well equipped to provide firewall, WAN connectivity, security, and connection between dissimilar LANs, routers are unable to provide high throughput between desktop devices and servers. Because of these limitations, routers and switches perform complimentary functions in the network.

The SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R can be used as a front-end to routers to increase performance in each subnet. Communication between local clients and servers is enhanced at the workgroup level below the router.

The SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R can also be used to back-end routers. In networks were many routers are interconnected over Token Ring and backbone performance is not acceptable, the SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R provides nonblocking communication between the routers for enhanced network performance. This provides protocol transparency with enhanced throughput in each subnet between local servers and desktops, thus allowing network managers to build logical networks as large as network layer protocol and broadcast traffic allow.

The Switched Port Analyzer also gives a collapsed backbone network superior network management and the ability to perform protocol analysis from a single location. The Switch Port Analyzer provides the latest technology for monitoring switch-based networks and helps to reduce the cost of managing these networks.

SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R Token Ring Switches Installation and User Guide Introduction