RPS Deployment Strategies
1-4 Introduction
RPS Deployment Strategies
TheRPScanbedeployedinavarietyofsituationswithmission‐criticalapplications.
For example:
•ForuseinavoiceanddatanetworkwhereswitchesareconnectedtoIPphonesand
PCs.ConnectinganRPStotheswitchescanpreventvoicenetworkfailurescausedby
switchpowerfailures.
•Forusein
traditionaldata10/100/1000Ethernetswitchescarryingmission‐critical
data.
Figure 1‐6showsanexampleoftheRPSprovidingredundantpowerbackupfortwo
SecureStackC2switches.IfaSecureStackC2switchdeviceexperiencesaninternalpower‐
supplyfailure,thefollowingoccurs:
1. TheinternalDC‐powersourceoftheswitchdeviceis
immediatelyswitchedover
fromtheinternalDC‐powersupplytotheRPSDC‐powerinput.
2. Theswitchdevicesavesthisstatusinformationforfutureretrieval,ifnecessary.
Figure 1-6 RPS Supporting Two SecureStack Switches
1 C2RPS-CHAS2 chassis (front view with two PSMs) 3 SecureStack C2 Ethernet switches
2 C2RPS-PSM Cables for 12 Vdc and status
information from PSMs
Note: The C2RPS-PSMs used in C2RPS-CHAS2 are interchangeable with those used in
the C2RPS-CHAS8 chassis available from Enterasys Networks.
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