Q-Logic 5000 manual Mesh Topology

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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 5000 Series switches the mesh fabric shown in Figure 3-7has the following characteristics:

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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 1/2/4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.

Figure 3-7. Mesh Topology

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