Mesh Topology - Qlogic SANbox 5600 Series 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 16-port SANbox 5600
Series switches the mesh fabric shown in
characteristics:
Each link contributes up to 425 MB of bandwidth between switches, 850 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.
Forty SFP Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.
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Figure 3-7 Mesh Topology
Figure 3-7 has the following
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