Fiber Optic Switch Fabric Concept
In the Switched Fabric (FC-SW-6) topology, devices are connected through one or more. While this topology has the best of the three FC topologies (the other two are and ), it is the only one requiring switches, which are costly hardware devices. Visibility among devices (called nodes) in a fabric is typically controlled with A switched fabric is a fibre channel topology in which individual node ports are interconnected and managed by switches. An I/O router that can connect any input port to any output port, which may be referred to as a switch. Because a switched fabric network spreads network traffic across multiple physical links, it yields higher total throughput than. Let's begin with a metaphor before we get to a technical explanation of fiber channel switching.
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