Switched fabric
Network topology in which nodes are interconnected by network switches / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Switched fabric or switching fabric is a network topology in which network nodes interconnect via one or more network switches[1] (particularly crossbar switches). Because a switched fabric network spreads network traffic across multiple physical links, it yields higher total throughput than broadcast networks, such as the early 10BASE5 version of Ethernet and most wireless networks such as Wi-Fi.
Fibre Channel | |
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Layer 4. Protocol mapping | |
LUN masking | |
Layer 3. Common services | |
Layer 2. Network | |
Fibre Channel fabric Fibre Channel zoning Registered state change notification | |
Layer 1. Data link | |
Fibre Channel 8b/10b encoding | |
Layer 0. Physical |
The generation of high-speed serial data interconnects that appeared in 2001–2004 which provided point-to-point connectivity between processor and peripheral devices are sometimes referred to as fabrics; however, they lack features such as a message-passing protocol.[citation needed] For example, HyperTransport, the computer processor interconnect technology, continues to maintain a processor bus focus even after adopting a higher speed physical layer. Similarly, PCI Express is just a serial version of PCI; it adheres to PCI's host/peripheral load/store direct memory access (DMA)-based architecture on top of a serial physical and link layer.