The UmaxSwitch is a 12 port, 10 BASE-T switch supporting two additional 100 BASE-TX ports and one flexible expansion slot. Two units can be cascaded together via a 200 Mbps full-duplex backbone. For further enhanced throughput, buffer segmentation can be used to maintain information flow on a port-by-port basis, depending on traffic. ??A front-panel fluorescent display greatly eases set-up, visualization of utilization, collision tracking, and monitoring general system status.