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Magnum 500-Series Switching Hubs Installation and User Guide (08/98)

2.4Applications

Magnum 500-Series Switching Hubs offer a great deal of performance and flexibility, and are easily used in a variety of ways including client/server applications, departmental networks performance upgrades and collapsed backbone applications.

Example 1 : Magnum 508

In a typical 10Mb network performance upgrade, multiple cascaded 10Mb hubs connect all networked devices using one 10Mb traffic domain. The Magnum 508 Switching Hub provides eight 10Mb traffic domains for increased performance. It connects all 10Mb equipment, hubs and servers, in the existing network while providing full 10Mb bandwidth to the network segment on each separate port.

The Magnum 508 switch filters and forwards packets from one segment to another, containing the local traffic and allowing only the packets which need to be forwarded to go outside to the appropriate other segments. This provides several 10Mb traffic domains rather than only one as before, greatly increasing performance. This is ideal for a central departmental switch that has branches out to workgroup and/or Personal Hubs with users attached, and provides dedicated 10Mb ports for commonly used servers. Figure 2.4 illustrates this example.

Figure 2.4a: BEFORE

Existing 10Mb cascaded network

Fig. 2.4b: AFTER

Magnum 508 Switching

Hub provides

connectivity while maintaining full 10Mbps bandwidth on each segment.

Congested 10Mb Network

PWR 10Mb

LINK							RX
							U PLINK
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

10Mb Workgroups

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