Optibase MGW 2400 WMT User Manual

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Appendix C 
• Optimizing your Network 
not adversely affect other segments. In this case, clusters of 
people will have access to resources from the same common 
device that connects them to the backbone. 
Exploit new Technologies for your Backbone 
Your backbone should be larger than the pipes that connect to 
it. If your network is entirely 100BaseT, a 100BaseT connection 
is probably not going to be big enough for the backbone. Use of 
ATM or Gigabit Ethernet will help you solve bottleneck 
problems along the company backbone. 
Use protocol shaping and Protocol Shapers 
Protocol shaping is becoming more and more popular as a way 
of controlling bandwidth use within organizations. Protocol 
shapers are hardware devices that allocate network resources 
according to specific protocols. 
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