12 Network Configurations

Kingston Technology Company KNE24TP/RS User’s Guide - Rev. A01

Cascading with Stacked Hubs

By stacking up to five Pro-Series hubs per segment, the number of UTP ports

increases dramatically. The total number of UTP ports changes from 90 (shown

in Figure 6) to 474 (shown below). Figure 7 listed below is an example of

horizontal cascading with stacked hubs under the Ethernet 5-4-3 rule.

Segment 1
Segment 2
Segment 3 Segment 4
Segment 5
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE
Slick-Stack Ethernet Hub
KNE24TP/RS
AUIBNC
34
21
PWR
UTIL %
COLL %
LINK / ACT / PARTITION
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
1516
1413 1920
1817
78
6511
12
109
2122 23 24
CASCADE
CABLE TYPE

Fig. 7. Cascading Stacked Hubs