- Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch Owner's Manual

36 Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series hardware

Figure 9

Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series used as a workgroup switch

Medium sized ofﬁce wiring closet switch application

Figure 10 "Conﬁguring power workgroups and a wiring closet switch" (page

37) shows the Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 series used as a wiring

closet switch in a medium to large enterprise ofﬁce environment. Desktop

workstations, IP Phones, and WLAN APs are connected directly to the

switch ports.

Figure 10 "Conﬁguring power workgroups and a wiring closet switch"

(page 37) shows the Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 series used as a

backbone switch, connecting to Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 – S1, with

an optional 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC for maximum bandwidth. S2 is a

single virtual switch stack of three ERS 2500 switches providing 10 or

100Mb/s, also connecting to the ERS 1624G backbone switch with an

optional 1000BASE-SX SFP GBIC in both switches.

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series

Overview — System Conﬁguration

NN47215-500 (323162-B) 02.02 Standard

4.1 19 November 2007