HP ProCurve 3500, 3500yl, 6200YL Switch the Installing, Figure 2-20.Connecting to a Backbone Switch

ProCurve Switch 5406zl

Servers with Gigabit

Ethernet NIC

Installing the Switch

Sample Network Topologies

	PCs, local servers, and
To IT or Data Center
	peripherals

Servers with Gigabit

Ethernet NIC

ProCurve Switch 3500yl-24G

Gigabit link (use fiber if over 100 meters)

ProCurve Switch 3500yl-48G

Servers with Gigabit

Ethernet NIC

Fast Ethernet Switch Fast Ethernet Switch

Switch the Installing

LEGEND:

Fast Ethernet cable

Gigabit Ethernet cable

Fiber cable

	Servers with Gigabit
PCs, local servers, and
	Ethernet NIC
peripherals

Figure 2-20. Connecting to a Backbone Switch.

The simpler desktop and segment networks shown in the previous two examples can easily be combined and expanded. For example, you could use an ProCurve Switch 5304xl to interconnect each of your smaller switched workgroups to form a larger switched network. All the devices in this network can communicate with each other. With a Gigabit-SX Module, for example, in the Switch 5304xl, the entire switched topology could be connected to a campus backbone, as shown in figure 2-3.

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