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Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series used as a workgroup switch

Medium sized office wiring closet switch application

Figure 10 "Configuring power workgroups and a wiring closet switch" (page

37)shows the Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 series used as a wiring closet switch in a medium to large enterprise office environment. Desktop workstations, IP Phones, and WLAN APs are connected directly to the switch ports.

Figure 10 "Configuring power workgroups and a wiring closet switch" (page 37) shows the Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 series used as a backbone switch, connecting to Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 – S1, with an optional 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC for maximum bandwidth. S2 is a single virtual switch stack of three ERS 2500 switches providing 10 or 100Mb/s, also connecting to the ERS 1624G backbone switch with an optional 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC in both switches.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series

Overview — System Configuration

NN47215-500 (323162-B) 02.02 Standard

4.1 19 November 2007

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