On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Rahul Nabar <rpna...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was totally confused on the spec sheet (one example link below) for > switches. What is the difference between "Switching Fabric Capacity > 288Gbps" and "User traffic capacity 176 Gbps"? The user traffic > numbers seem to be a lot lower than the switching fabric numbers. Is > this some sort of overhead? Or.....
As if to make life even more difficult a comparable Dell switch here has an additional characteristic too: "Forwarding Rate 131 Mpps" How does that tie in to the big picture? http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/PC_6200Series_proof1.pdf -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
