IEEE1355 Switch Properties

• Flow control

  • minimum buffer requirements

• Wormhole routing (a. k. a. ‘cut-through’)

  • minimum latency

• No packet size restrictions

  • easy adoption of different protocols

• Grouped adaptive routing

  • multiple links ‘appear’ as one ‘fat’ link

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