Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

1735.0. "Poor man's hub" by CGOS01::DMARLOWE (Have you been HUBbed lately?) Tue Nov 29 1994 14:37

I've started running into competition from the low end rack and stack
vendors, especially 3 COM with their new Link switch modules, etc.

This just hit me while driving home a couple of days ago.  When we get the 
32 port with per port switching we should be able to create a poor man's 
hub something like below.


       +---------------------+
       |  DS 900EF or PE 200 |
       |                     |
       | 1  2  3  4  5  6  7 |
       +---------------------+
            M  |  |  |  |
            A  |  |  |  |
            U  |  |  |  |
            |  |  |  |  |                   
            |  |  |  |  |                   
      +---------------------------------------+
      |     1  2  3  4  5                     |
      |     |  |     |  +----------------+    |
      |     |  |     |                   |    | 
      |     |  |     +----+              |    |
      |     |  |          |              |    | DR 900TP (CP, FP or GP with
      |     |  +----+     |              |    |   the appropriate MUA's)
      |     |       |     |              |    |
      | +-+-+-+--+  +--+  +--+--+--+--+  +--+ |
      | | | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
      | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 29 30 31 32 |
      +---------------------------------------+
        | | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |


This is based on the groupings that should be familiar in the DR 900FP.  In 
this case we use one port to bring in switched Ethernet into the group and 
some number of ports out to users.

This gets us into the account with 2 DEChub ONE power supplies.  Later the 
customer can migrate to a DEChub 900 and continue to grow.

Now all we need is the DR 900TP or GP.

dave