SWITCHLESS NETWORK

摘要

A network shelf is disclosed for connecting a number of devices together. The sh elf includes a backplane having multiple device slots. It also includes multiple links connecte d to each device slot. Each of the device slots is normally connected to at least one of the othe r device slots through at least one of the links. The limit on the number of devices being conn ected together in a full mesh configuration is one more than the number of links on a given dev ice slot.