[f-nsp] Switch Fabrics for MLXe-4

[Niels Bakker]

* robhass at gmail.com (Robert Hass) [Sat 14 Sep 2013, 12:35 CEST]:
>I'm planning to buy new MLXe-4 with 3 linecards (all three are 8x10G 
>SFP+). MLXe-4 comes with 2 hSFM modules.
>
>What will happen if one hSFM module fails? Will I lose some 
>bandwidth to some/all linecards?
>
>I just want to compare SFM redundancy with 2xhSFM vs 3xhSFM

Due to the nature of the Clos switch fabric you will not lose 
connectivity, only some forwarding capacity between all linecards 
if^H^Hwhen an SFM fails.


	-- Niels.

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