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Cisco Stacking Switches StackWise and StackWise Plus
Cisco Stacking Switches StackWise and StackWise Plus
Stackable Switch
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Logical and physical ring architecture of the Catalyst 3k
Comprises two 16 Gbps counter-rotating rings
-Data on both rings when fully connected:
Stackwise-32 Gbps
Stackwise Plus-64 Gbps
Internal Connection:
On Cisco 3750V2, 3750G: The Stack Ring is the switching fabric
Cisco 3750E, 3750X: The Stack Ring only interconnects the individual Switch
Fabrics
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Eight TX/RCV pairs per ring
That is 16 pairs (8 channels per ring)
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Stackwise Vs Stackwise Plus
Spatial Reuse
Note: These are packets not tokens. There is only 1 token per ring.
Ring Healing
The switch fabric or port ASIC closest to cable detects link down
-Criteria is coding violations in a period of time
-Loss of at most one packet that was being transmitted when ring broke
-Just microseconds for hardware to detect failure
Each switch signals a bad link to stack its partner
Both ends of the cable loop back on themselves
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