GSN Physical Layer
- 6400 Mbits (800 Mbytes)/sec bandwidth
- Independent full speed, half duplex channels
- 4 Virtual Circuits (multiplexing facility)
- Small (32 byte) fixed size micropacket
- Credit-based flow control
- End-to-end & Link-to-link checksums
- Automatic retransmit to correct flawed data
- Copper and optical interconnects
- Support for legacy HIPPI-800 and Ethernet traffic