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    Office Connect ® Office Connect ® data sheet Unmanaged and Managed Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and auto-sensing hubs and switches 3Com OfficeConnect ® hubs and switches are designed to take the worry out of building and r unning a network for small business, branch office, and home office environments. The OfficeConnect family , which includes hubs,[...]

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    2 Inno vativ e CoolC urve design. Creates a self-ventilating networ k stack that eliminates the need for cooling fans and provides silent and r eliable operation on the desktop. MDI/MDIX switch. All OfficeConnect hubs and switches feature an MDI/MDIX switch that allows connection to a workstation or other network device using off-the-shelf straight[...]

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    H H u u b b s s & & S S w w i i t t c c h h e e s s 3 OfficeConne ct LED Indicators Alert PKT PWR COLL green + link OK, off = link fall, yellow = partition Port Status Network Utilization 1 COAX 1% 2% 3% 6% 12% 25% 50% 80% 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 As this front view of the OfficeConnect Hub 8/TPC illustrates, each OfficeConnect unit offers a variety o[...]

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    Ethernet Hubs 4 Example: 10 Mbps link Switch Workstation 10 Mbps Hub Dual Speed Hub 8 Workstation 10 Mbps Hub 10 Mbps Hub Ethernet (10 Mbps) Configuration Rules Using twisted-pair cables, you can connect a maximum of four Ethernet (10 Mbps) hubs in series between workstations, or between a workstation and a nonrepeater piece of equipment (such as a[...]

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    5 F a st Ethernet Hubs F a st Ethernet (100 Mbps) Configuration Rules All OfficeConnect Fast Ethernet hubs are Class II. Y ou can directly connect two Class II Fast Ethernet hubs (Class I hubs cannot be directly connected to other Fast Ethernet hubs). The total length of cable (A+B+C below) between two workstations and a nonrepeater piece of equipm[...]

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    6 S witche s OfficeConne ct Switch 140 3C16730 I deal for relieving congested shared- access networks, the OfficeConnect S witch 140 provides four unmanaged 10BASE-T ports and one 100BASE-TX switched Ethernet port. This switch and the OfficeConnect S witch 140M provide a simple plug-and-play link between Ethernet and F ast Ethernet OfficeConnect de[...]

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    H H u u b b s s & & S S w w i i t t c c h h e e s s 7 S pe cifications OfficeConnect Hubs and Switches OfficeConne ct Hubs All OfficeConnect hubs come with a user guide, power adapter , stacking clips, and rubber feet. OfficeConnect Hub TP4 (10BASE-T Hub) Connectors: Four RJ-45 ports for 10BAS E-T twisted-pair Dimensions: Width: 220 mm (8.7[...]

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    Office Connect ® 3Com Corporation P .O. Box 58145 5400 Bayfront Plaza Santa Clara, CA 95052-8145 Phone: 1 800 NET 3Com or 1 408 764 5000 Fax: 1 408 764 5001 World Wide Web: http://www .3com.com Asia Pacific Rim Sydney, Australia: 61 2 9937 5000 Melbourne, Australia: 61 3 9866 8022 Beijing, China: 86 10 68492 568 Shanghai, China: 86 21 6350 1581 Ho[...]