Ethernet switches are still commonly used. So I studied the enterprise-level Ethernet switch solution and shared it with you here. I hope it will be useful to you. As the main connection device of the LAN, the Ethernet switch is one of the fastest-growing network devices. With the continuous development of switching technology, the price of Ethernet switches decreases sharply, and switching to the desktop is the trend of the times.
If you have a large number of users, busy applications, and a variety of servers on the Ethernet, and you have not made any adjustments to the network structure, the performance of the entire network may be very low. One solution is to add a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch over Ethernet. It can not only process 10 Mbps of conventional Ethernet data streams, but also support Mbps of Fast Ethernet connections.
If the network usage exceeds 40% and the collision rate exceeds 10%, the switch can help you solve some problems. Vswitches with Mbps Fast Ethernet and 10 Mbps Ethernet ports can run in full duplex mode and can establish dedicated 20 Mbps to Mbps connections.
Not only do vswitches have different roles in different network environments, but the impact of adding new vswitches and adding switch ports of existing vswitches on the network is also different in the same network environment. Fully understanding and understanding the network traffic mode is a very important factor in whether the Ethernet switch can be used. Because the purpose of using a vswitch is to minimize and filter data traffic in the network, if an Ethernet switch in the network needs to forward almost all received packets due to its improper installation location, the ethernet switch cannot optimize the network performance, but reduces the data transmission speed and network latency.
In addition to the installation location, if you blindly add vswitches in networks with low load and low Information volume, it may also have a negative impact. It is more ideal to use a simple HUB than a vswitch because of the processing time of data packets, the buffer size of the vswitch, and the need to regenerate new data packets. Therefore, we cannot always consider that Ethernet switches have advantages over HUB, especially when the user's network is not crowded and there is still a lot of available space, using the HUB can make full use of the existing resources of the network.