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2.3 System Requirements
Component Requirement
System requirements
Switch fabric capacity Non-blocking full wire speed on all packet sizes
Forwarding architecture Store and forward or cut-through
Port packet forwarding rate
(at 64 Bytes)
• 14880000 pps (10Gb)
• 1488000 pps (1000 Mb)
MAC address entries
supported
128K entries
Memory type 9 MBytes buffer memory
Console port Serial RS232 console ports (RJ45)
Serial console
• Provide visual feedback of the boot process to the user
• Timeout after period of inactivity
Port requirements
Speed Capability per Port 1G/10Gbps Auto-Sensing
Full-Duplex Flow Control Support the IEEE 802.3x PAUSE frame
2.4 Data Center Deployment
The following gure illustrates the converaged Ethernet data center deployment.
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