– Copied from customer query –
As the UbiSwitch is managed, does that mean that hooking 2 of them up together to create additional Ethernet ports is just a matter of connecting them together?
There are two ways to connect up two UbiSwitch.
Option 1: 1GBASE-T to 1GBASE-T: This method means taking one of the 1GBASE-T ports on each UbiSwitch, and simply wiring them together. This is simple to do and requires no port configuration. The downside is that it creates a 1Gbps bottleneck between the two switches.
Option 2: 10G port to 10G port. This method means taking one of the 10G ports on each UbiSwitch, and wiring them together. We haven’t actually tried this, so we’ll need to play around with the configuration of the ports to get it working. In theory that’s trivial, but it can be a bit tricky. Most likely both ports would need to be in USXGMII mode, but we’d need to look into this. The benefit of this is that there is no bottleneck between the switches.
Can you accept the bottleneck of 1Gbps between the switches? You’ll still have no issue pinging devices on both switches using the connection between them. However if you had more than 1Gbps that needed to traverse from one switch to the other, it would exceed that connection.