Olicom 8605, 8600 manual Switch of Floors and Buildings, Switch of Routers

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Switch of Floors and Buildings

For network managers, multistorey buildings and campuses can represent a unique networking challenge. How can a network manager provide an efficient LAN interconnect for users that are located on several floors of a building or in different buildings?

Token-Ring switching and the CrossFire product family can provide the best solution. The CrossFire 8600 and the CrossFire 8605 provide enhanced throughput to local wiring closets that can be connected to a switch located in the data center.

Many networks consist of users located in different buildings of a campus environment. The switches can be used as a collapsed backbone interconnecting multiple buildings of a campus. They can provide the connectivity solution and enhanced throughput that such campus environments require.

Switch of Routers

Router technology has had a significant impact on the design of today’s internetworks. Routers have become the cornerstone of most production networks. Although well equipped to provide firewall, WAN connectivity, security, and connection between dissimilar LANs, routers are unable to provide high throughput between desktop devices and servers. Because of these limitations, routers and switches perform complimentary functions in the network.

The CrossFire 8600 and the CrossFire 8605 can be used as a front-end to routers to increase performance in each subnet. Communication between local clients and servers is enhanced at the workgroup level below the router.

The switches can also be used to back-end routers. In networks were many routers are interconnected over Token-Ring and backbone performance is not acceptable, the switches provide non-blocking communication between the routers for enhanced network performance. This provides protocol transparency with enhanced throughput in each subnet between local servers and desktops, thus allowing network managers to build logical networks as large as network layer protocol and broadcast traffic allow.

The SwitchProbe (Switched Port Analyzer) also gives a collapsed backbone network superior network management and the ability to perform protocol analysis from a single location. The SwitchProbe (Switch Port Analyzer) provides the latest technology for monitoring switch-based networks and helps to reduce the cost of managing these networks.

CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641 Overview and Specifications