[e-nsp] BlackDiamond 6808

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Sun Jan 20 17:42:52 EST 2008


On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Marcin Kuczera wrote:

> Does it have passive or active backplane ?

Passive.

> BD6808 may have 2 MSM modules - so, redundant.
> - but - is the "switch" also redundand (a part of MSM or port modules ?) ?

That is built into the MSMs. But with single MSM you only get 4 gig per 
module on the backplane (instead of 8), so one might argue that it's not 
fully redundant.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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