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Figure 3: Side Panel
SWITCH ARCHITECTURE
This Gigabit Ethernet switch employs a wire-speed, non-blocking switching
fabric. This permits simultaneous wire-speed transport of multiple packets at low
latency on all ports. The switch also features full-duplex capability on all ports,
which effectively doubles the bandwidth of each connection.
For communications between different VLANs, the switch uses IP routing. For
communications within the same VLAN, it uses store-and-forward switching to
ensure maximum data integrity. With store-and-forward switching, the entire
packet must be received into a buffer and checked for validity before being
forwarded. This prevents errors from being propagated throughout the network.
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