3Com 3824 Implementation Guide - Page 82

82 APPENDIX B: NETWORK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES Enhancing the Performance of Your Network Figure 23 shows how you can set your network up to enhance its performance. All ports are auto-negotiating and will therefore pass data across the network at the optimum available speed and duplex mode. Flow control will help avoid packet loss during periods of network congestion. A Gigabit Ethernet backbone is set up between the Switch 3824 and each Switch in the workgroups to increase the bandwidth, and therefore the overall network performance. Figure 23 Network set up to enhance performance Stack of two Switch 4200 units Endstations on 10/100 Mbps connections 1000 Mbps with aggregated links set up Stack of four Switch 4200 units Production Workgroups Endstations on 10/100 Mbps connections 1000 Mbps with aggregated links set up 100 Mbps Switch 3824 1000 Mbps Administrative Workgroups Servers on 1000 Mbps connections with aggregated links set up