Re: WS-X6148A-GE-TX performance question

[Tim Lampman <tim () broadlinenetworks com>]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SXF/native/release/notes/OL_4164.html#wp2563293

Scott Spencer wrote:
>  Are the X6148A cards dedicated 1 gb/s uplink for each port ( shared 32 Gb/s
> bus , as long as each port is it's own 1 gb/s still to the 32gb/s bus and
> not shared with 7 other ports, so effectively just 125Mb/s per port then if
> all used at full/even capacity) ?
>
> I can't really find anything much on X6148A internal architecture online,
> but it would seem that each port gets its own 1gb/s link to the
> card/backplane, and that the bottleneck then is the 32gb/s backplane (which
> is fine, as long as it's not 1 gb/s per each set of 8 ports!).
>
>  
> Best regards,
>  
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