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through an interconnect cable and have a stack providing 36 ports. This entire stack will act as a single repeater, and the management functions that are included in the SEHI-24 will be applied also to the SEH-22 in the stack.

Product	Type	Max	Media	Port Count	PIMs/BRIMs
		Management
SEHI-24/34	stack base	SNMP	UTP	24	2 EPIMs
SEH-22/32	stackable	NONE	UTP	12	1 EPIM

Loading Dock
Shipping 1	Inventory Control 1
Shipping 2
(future)
Office	Warehouse
Stations
(21)
SEH-24
SEHI-24
Servers (3)	Inventory Control 2
Business	2094n16
Office

Figure 6-4. Ethernet Small Office Implementation

The Remote Office

The remote office installation is a special case of the small office scenario treated in the previous section. The differentiation between the small office and the remote office is that the remote office requires a connection to a different networking technology in order to make a connection to a larger or physically separate network. In the classical sense, this refers to a branch office location that has a Wide Area Networking link to the parent company network.

The vast majority of “remote offices” are actually individual workgroups in a larger facility that are all connected to one another through a high-speed backbone technology such as FDDI.

6-16 Ethernet Workgroup Design