
Network Configuration Examples
Catalyst 1900 Series Installation and Configuration Guide
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Network Configuration Examples
As your network users compete for network bandwidth, it takes longer to send and receive
data. Network performance can degrade for reasons such as:
• Too many users on a single network segment
• High demand from networked applications, such as e-mail with large attached files
• High demand from bandwidth intensive applications, such as multimedia
• A growing number of users accessing the Internet
• The increased power of new PCs, workstations, and servers
You can design your network to increase the bandwidth available to your network users by
using one or more of the following methods:
• Create smaller network segments so that fewer users share the bandwidth, and place the
network resources in the same logical network as the users who access those resources
most.
• Connect power users and global resources (such as servers and routers), which require
equal access by network users, directly to the switch ports or to other Fast Ethernet hubs
and switches. Global resources should be placed in their own Fast Ethernet segment.
• Use full-duplex operation between the switch and its connected devices.
This section provides network configuration examples for using the Catalyst 1900 switches
in your network to create dedicated network segments and interconnecting the segments
through its high-speed ports:
• Client/server workgroup with a single switch
• Distributed 100BaseT backbone with multiple switches
• 100BaseT collapsed backbone with multiple switches
• 100BaseT redundant backbone with multiple switches
• Extended network with multiple switches
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