From: Brad Hedlund (BHedlund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 12:49:29 GMT-3
What if all 24 ports were operating at full duplex?
A backplane of 2.4Gbps wouldnt be enough, right?
Or am I wrong?
24 x 200Mbps = 4.8 Gbps ?
Brad Hedlund
CCIE #5530
>
> 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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