PLANNING
High-Speed Switch Links
Most common LAN implementations use a combination of hubs, bridges and routers. The bridges and routers quickly become bottlenecks, reducing overall network throughput.
Using switches instead of bridges and routers allows you to tie together LAN segments and retain a cohesive LAN structure in which any node can freely communicate with any other node in the network.
In the following figure, the TigerSwitch 100M (Model SMC6608M) is cascaded via the