Installation guide

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 SANbox 5602
switches the mesh fabric shown in Figure 3-5 has the following characteristics:
 Each link contributes up to 425 MB of bandwidth between switches, 850 MB
in full duplex. Because of multiple parallel paths, there is less competition for
this bandwidth than with a cascade or a Multistage topology.
 Latency between any two ports is one chassis hop.
 40 1-Gbps/2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports are available for devices.
Figure 3-5. Mesh Topology
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