Mesh Topology - Qlogic SANbox 5802V Installation Manual

3 – Planning
Multiple Chassis Fabrics

Mesh Topology

A mesh topology describes a fabric in which each chassis has at least one port
directly connected to each other chassis in the fabric. Using 20-port SANbox
5802V switches the mesh fabric shown in
characteristics:
Each link contributes up to 850 MB of bandwidth between switches, 1700
MB in full duplex. Because of multiple parallel paths, there is less
competition for this bandwidth than with a cascade or a Multistage topology.
Latency between any two ports is one chassis hop.
Fifty-six Fibre Channel SFP ports are available for devices.
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Figure 3-7 Mesh Topology
Figure 3-7 has the following
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