System Architecture; Physical View - HP 9304m Installation And Getting Started Manual

Installation and Getting Started Guide
Figure B.3 Example of an HP 9315M Routing Switch (15-slot)

System Architecture

Built on a fully non-blocking architecture, the chassis platform provides switching capacity in the core and on each
interface module. Each interface module utilizes a high bandwidth, shared-memory switching fabric. This local
switching fabric houses the forwarding engines and includes Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) that
provide packet switching functions such as priority handling. Each interface module also contains ASICs that
perform high speed Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4 lookups and forwarding, including IP sub-net look ups and
packet modifications of IP and IPX packets. Additionally, each interface module has a full-duplex data path to the
backplane that provides separate priority queues for each module destination.

Physical View

This section describes the external features of the Chassis devices.
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