Qlogic SANbox 5600 Series, Installation Manual

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3 – Planning
Multiple Chassis Fabrics
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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 model 5600
switches, the mesh fabric shown in
Figure 3-5 has the following characteristics:
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Each link contributes up to 212 MB of bandwidth between switches, 425 MB
in full duplex. Because of multiple parallel paths, there is less competition for
this bandwidth than with a cascade or a Multistage topology.
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Latency between any two ports is one chassis hop.
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40 1/2/4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.
Figure 3-5. Mesh Topology