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core switch
noun
A high-capacity switch usually at the core or backbone of a computer network, aggregating network traffic to the Internet or a WAN.
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The company blamed the failure of a core switch for that incident.
We consider a metro network architecture that consists of a buffer-less all-optical core switch, where a number of edge switches are connected to the core switch.
This cluster is coincident with problems occurring as a result of making changes to a core switch at SLAC.
Model results suggest that a simple architecture based on two core switch locations provides a robust, near-optimal solution.
"When the core switch for the network was purchased from Ericsson, the Cubans made absolutely sure they had every imaginable 'snooping' feature available", he says.
The first scheme is reservation-based, in which decisions are made at each core switch so that collisions (and therefore loss) can be avoided through reservations.
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The edge switches are Cisco Catalyst 5000s, the core switches are Cisco Catalyst 6500s, the farm and server switches are Cisco Catalyst 5500s, and the core routers are Cisco Catalyst 8500s.
In the second scheme, distributed and independent decisions are made at edge switches, but we need to retransmit the traffic dropped at core switches in the optical domain.
Without the option of following their club abroad, the hard core switched their travel arrangements: there was a perceptible growth in the numbers and volatility of the England team's away fans.
Rather than send network traffic up two layers to the data center's core switches and back down to another access switch, Plexxi's devices are designed to communicate directly with each other using high-speed fiber optic interconnections.
The topological design problem consists of determining the optimal number, size and placement of edge nodes, selector/multiplexers and core switches as well as the placement of the DWDM links so as to minimize network costs while satisfying performance requirements of the supported traffic.
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