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3 – Planning
Multiple Chassis Fabrics
3.5.4.2
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. Using 16-port SANbox 5602
switches the mesh fabric shown in
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.
40 1-Gbps/2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.
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Figure 3-5. Mesh Topology
Figure 3-5
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