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Stacking the 24- and 48-port switches into a common backplane required a special 3Com .5 meter stacking cable with color-coded ends. As many as eight switches can be stacked. Once you make the connections, 3Com's XRN (Expandable Resilient Networking) fabric becomes the common backplane.
The XRN fabric includes three technologies:
» DDM (Distributed Device Management) let me manage each of the units through any port or IP address associated with the switches. In effect, I treated both switches as a single Layer 3 switch with a common VLAN.
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