Section 2: Installation
2470 High Voltage SourceMeter Instrument Reference Manual
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2470-901-01 Rev. A /
May
2019
Figure 13: One-to-one connection with a crossover cable
The 2470 supports Auto-MDIX and can use either normal LAN CAT-5 cables (patch) or crossover
cables. The instrument automatically adjusts to support either cable.
One-to-many connection
With a LAN hub, a single network interface card can be connected to as many instruments as the hub
can support. This requires straight-through network (not crossover) cables for hub connections.
The advantage of this method is easy expansion of measurement channels when the test
requirements exceed the capacity of a single instrument. With only the instruments connected to the
hub, this is an isolated instrumentation network. However, with a corporate network attached to the
hub, the instruments become part of the larger network.
Figure 14: One-to-many connection using a network hub or switch