installed. If a hub stack has two master units, the master unit
Segmenting Hubs
Switching hub technology has made it more common to segment local area networks into smaller pieces to reduce congestion. Segmenting makes it easier to balance network loads, since a smaller number compete for the bandwidth available.
A hub stack makes network management convenient, but too many stations on a single network segment may give slow response at peak network loads. Therefore, this hub series provides a way to segment hubs from the stack into their own collision domains. Segmenting hubs can be accomplished with a simple management command and does not require any hardware or wiring changes.
Though the hubs continue to be cascaded together and are managed as a sin- gle unit, each hub can either be a part of the collision domain of the rest of the stack, or can be separated into its own network segment. These separate segments can be bridged by connecting them through a compatible switching hub.
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