American Power Conversion AP9615 Manuale Utente

Station ports

The Station ports are the first 4

RJ-45

ports, which are

labeled

1X–4X

. The Station ports use straight-through

UTP

cables to connect the hub with:

• Workstations or other non-hub devices that you want

to include in your network.

• The Uplink port of another hub in a cascading config-

uration.

Note: A Station port acts as an Uplink port when it is used

with a crossover cable.

Uplink port

The Uplink port is normally used in either of the following
ways, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Dual Use of the Uplink Port

Communication

cables

The hub requires a category 3, 4, or 5 UTP 10Base-T com-
munication cable for each device to be attached.

Connected in cascade with a Station port of another
hub or switching device, using a straight-through
cable.

Connected to a workstation or other non-hub device,
using a crossover cable.

straight-through cable

crossover cable

Uplink

Corporate LAN

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