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blocking and non blocking switches

carl_townshend
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‎04-28-2009 04:59 AM - edited ‎03-06-2019 05:25 AM

Hi all, can anyone tell me what this means, does it mean the switch will forward whatever traffic goes through it at full throughput for every port ?

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Giuseppe Larosa
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‎04-28-2009 07:27 AM

Hello Carl,

your understanding is correct

non blocking means the backplane can process traffic line rate tx/rx on each port including uplinks

Hope to help

Giuseppe

carl_townshend
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In response to Giuseppe Larosa

‎04-28-2009 07:43 AM

ie if a port has 48 100 meg ports, the switch will process 4.8 gig of traffic ?

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davy.timmermans
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In response to carl_townshend

‎04-28-2009 07:51 AM

x 2: 9,6

calculated for processing full duplex (=RX+TX) traffic

Joseph W. Doherty
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‎04-28-2009 10:50 AM

It also often means, the switch's architecture avoids head-of-line blocking.

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