[rescue] u2 drive trays

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Tue Aug 19 10:12:30 CDT 2003


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> > With a FDDI ring, you get 100Mbps total bandwidth for the ring.  With
> > a FDDI switch, you get 100Mbps for each port.  Machine A can be
> > sending a file to machine B using 100Mbps while machine C sends a file
> > to machine D using 100Mbps, and they can all be on the same network.
>
> Now, if one is switching FDDI, at that point what is the benefit of FDDI
> versus Ethernet?

Because I get an aggregated bandwidth of 800Mbps when I switch FDDI.

Peace...  Sridhar



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