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Chapter 1
Introduction
What Is in This Chapter
This chapter introduces the SPECTRUM management module for the Cisco Catalyst 5000/5500 Hubs. It describes the following:
•The Cisco Catalyst 5000/5500 Hubs
•SPECTRUM Model Type
-Accessing SPECTRUM Views
•SPECTRUM Views Roadmap
The Cisco Catalyst 5000/5500 Hubs
The Cisco Catalyst 5000 is a five slot chassis that provides Copper Distributed Data Interface/multilevel transmission
•10BaseT and 100BaseT (Fast Ethernet)
•4/16 Mbps Token Ring
•Copper Distributed Data Interface/Fiber Distributed Data Interface
•Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
The architecture for the 5000 also supports backbone connections for 100BaseT, CDDI/FDDI, and ATM.
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