SUMMIT OVERVIEW

NETWORK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE

As shown in Figure 1-2, the family of Summit switches offer a unique end-to-end LAN system solution. From the desktop, to the gigabit core, to the data center/server farm, there are Summit switches with an optimized hardware configuration to match the requirements. ExtremeWare software is common to all Summit switches, and allows for the same services to operate across the entire product family. All Summit switches deliver wire-speed throughput and end-to-end policy based Quality of Service.

Intranet Switching Architecture

Desktop switches

Segment switches

Desktop switches

Routers

Data Center

Integrated Server switch

GigabitL2/L3 10/100 Mbps

Figure 1-2:Network configuration using the Summit family of switches

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