As I understand any Ethernet Switch has a back-plane of say so many Gbps. I want to know what does this 'back-plane' means ? Beside, the technical meaning of 'band width' ina Ethernet Switch is the same as refered to 'back-plane" ? Kindly help me understand these terms fully, thanks.
2006-09-10 09:13:31 · 3 answers · asked by ashfaq_ahmed70 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
The back-plane, also the switch bandwidth, is how fast the switch can operate. Most switches aren't fast enough to take care of every port running at full speed. But they don't need to be that quick, because people rarely use the full speed of their network connection.
In order for a switch to run at full speed for every port, you would need the backplane to run at the combined full speed of every port. So a 16 port Gigabit switch would need to have a backplane of about 16Gbs to begin to keep up.
But as I said earlier, you wouldn't need the full 16 Gbs for a home network because I doubt you would have all of your computers running at full speed.
Bandwidth outside of a switch means how much data can be carried a second. So it has the same meaning inside and outside a switch.
2006-09-10 09:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-10 16:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
who really cares??? you are making my brain rip into teensy tiny pieces!!! get a life!!! (that doesn't count computers!!!)
2006-09-10 16:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Swimmergrl 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋