Mesh Topology - Qlogic SANbox2-8c Installation Manual

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3.4.3.2

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. The example mesh fabric
shown in
Each link contributes up to 200 MB/s of bandwidth between switches, 400
MB/s 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.
20 Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.
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Figure 3-2 has the following characteristics:
Figure 3-2. Mesh Topology
3 – Planning
Multiple Chassis Fabrics
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