Doesn't that assume that the communicarion is unidirectional?
If two hosts are exchanging 1Gbps flows, the traffic across the bus will be
2Gbps, right?
And of course, this doesn't include any bus-intensive operations like
multicast
or things which require cpu processing - those can consume a lot more resources
than the input rate of the port.
-David Barak
Tom Storey wrote:
>> Not every bit in results in just one bit out. Broadcast, multicast,
>> flooding for unknown MACs (or switching failures), ...
> They were talking about a simple scenario where a bit that enters a port
> will leave a port. With 24 gigabit ports, for all intents and purposes,
> you will only ever have 24 gigabits at the most traversing the backplane.
