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All rights are reserved and all forms of publication or duplication, either physical or digital, are prohibited except as provided for in the 'Fair Use' statement.

References may be made to commercially available network products; copyright and trade marks in these products are the property of their respective owners.

Under this 'Fair Use' policy, you may use the information in this website to help in the documentation of any private or commercial project provided that the SONetWORX project and Glyn Storey are acknowledged. A suitable acknowledgment is:

"Documentation based in whole or in part on the VX Networks Project by Glyn Storey".

The 'Fair Use' policy excludes the commercial sale of information from the website when it is not used to document a network project; you may not sell, publish, duplicate or otherwise distribute any information from the VXNetworks website for commercial gain if it is not used to document a project.

For commercial use, please contact VXNetworks 'at' vortrax.org.uk

All of the information provided in this website is given in good faith and has been tested, where stated, in the author's own test and reference network to achieve the published results. No responsibility is accepted for the failure of any network, developed using the information contained in this website, to perform as desired.

It is the responsibility of the network designer (not the author of this website) to ensure that any network developed using the information from this website is fit for its intended purpose. If the failure of any such network is likely to incur a financial loss, a network professional should be consulted before committing to its use.

References may be made to information about network hardware obtained from manufacturers data sheets or online data; no responsibility is accepted for any errors in this information. It is the responsibility of the network designer to ensure that network hardware is suitable for the intended use.

It must be understood that the low cost, 'retail', network hardware (referenced in this website) will have some limitations compared to their 'enterprise' counterparts. These limitations include, but not exclusively, feature set, performance, data throughput, configurability and physical presentation. Where appropriate, obvious limitations have been pointed out.

It is the network designer's responsibility to ensure that any of the products referenced in this website, or any similar products from other manufacturers, are suitable for the intended use.

The commercially available products referenced within this website are the author's own property. No network hardware has been supplied or sponsored by any manufacturer.

The use of any particular piece of network hardware in the reference networks is not intended as an endorsement of that product. The hardware used in the reference networks has been shown to perform as described.

Other manufacturers network hardware, similar in price and performance, is available and could be used as described in the reference networks where there is equivalent functionality. It is the responsibility of the network designer to ensure that, where other hardware is used, the same or similar functionality is provided.

Author's note: there are significant differences in the functionality of the routers, switches and network attached storage devices referenced in this website and other similar devices. Care should be taken to ensure that the devices selected for any given network support all of the required functionality.