Router Deconstruction |
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One terabit router is based on a
Butterfly network. This architecture is related to the Buffered Banyan
architecture. (See Gigabit Networking by Partridge) |
Another terabit router is based on a
Folded Butterfly network. This architecture is related to the
BBN Butterfly architecture. The folding is used to cut the distance
between modules by a factor of 2. |
Another terabit router is based on a Fat Tree network. This architecture is related to the backbone of Thinking Machine's Connection Machine. The architecture is hierarchical. |
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