摘要 |
A network box is described. In one embodiment, the network box comprises multiple card slots. Each of the slots has multiple ports. The network box also includes a full mesh interconnect backplane coupling each of the cards slots to each other using point-to-point serial links. The network box includes at least one card inserted into one of the slots. This card has a controller to maintain information specifying a mapping of connections between each of the ports on each of the card slots in order to configure connections between the card ports of the plurality of card slots.
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