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SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R Token Ring Switches Installation and User Guide Introduction
network management statistics. Total network capacity and throughput increase
dramatically for attached desktop workstations.
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 SmartStack product family can provide the best
solution. The SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R provides 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 SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R 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 SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R 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 SmartStack STS16-20D/STS16-20R provides
nonblocking 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 Switched Port Analyzer also gives a collapsed backbone network superior
network management and the ability to perform protocol analysis from a single
location. The Switch Port Analyzer provides the latest technology for monitoring
switch-based networks and helps to reduce the cost of managing these networks.