From: Lee, Vaughan (vaughan.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 11:43:04 GMT-3
As lifted off the front page of this week's Network News (UK paper):
'A switch has a non-blocking architecture if its internal backplane speed is
equal to, or greater than, the sum of the speed of all the ports connecting
to the switch. For example: a non-blocking switch with 24 100Mbps ports
will have a backplane speed of 2.4Gbps. This means that network traffic
shouldn't reach a bottleneck when it hits the switch.'
Short, sharp, to the point.
Regards,
Vaughan
Vaughan Lee, Network Specialist.
CCIE #5250
debis IT Services (UK) Ltd.
E-mail: vaughan.lee@debis.co.uk
Direct Phone: 01908 279561
Direct Fax: 01908 279061
http://www.debis.co.uk/
-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie Parra [mailto:eparra@rexallsundown.com]
Sent: 13 March 2000 13:55
To: CCIE Group Study
Subject: Blocking and non-blocking switches???
Can someone tell me what the difference is between a "blocking"
and "non-blocking' switch?
-Eddie
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