[Tfug] Ethernet frame "immutables" wrt switch silicon

[Louis Taber]

I would think a switch is more like (n^2)/2.  The size of the interconnect
fabric grows much faster than just n.


> Note that the switch is a perfect example of "step and repeat" in
> a design -- you're just doing the same thing on each of the N ports
> so any economies in your design are immediately magnified.
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tfug.org/pipermail/tfug_tfug.org/attachments/20130514/1c8aff7b/attachment-0002.html>