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• Appearance and Mechanism
Chapter 2
2.3 System Requirements
Component
Requirement
System requirements
Switch fabric capacity
Non-blocking full wire speed on all packet sizes
Forwarding architecture
Store and forward or cut-through
Port packet forwarding rate
(at 64 Bytes)
1.44 Tbps
MAC address entries
supported
288K entries
Memory type
12 MBytes buffer memory
Console port
Serial RS232 console ports (RJ45)
Serial console
• Provide visual feedback of the boot process to the user
• Timeout after period of inactivity
Port requirements
Speed Capability per Port
1G/10Gbps Auto-Sensing
Full-Duplex Flow Control
Support the IEEE 802.3x PAUSE frame
2.4 Data Center Deployment
The following figure illustrates the converaged Ethernet data center deployment.
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40GbE QSFP+ uplink
10GbE SFP+
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(Figure 2-5: Converaged Ethernet Data Center Deployment)
