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The topology you choose depends on the following major fabric requirements:

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The size of the fabric (number of user ports required), 

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The amount of latency the users can tolerate (number of chassis hops and 
interconnection media delay between the source port and the destination 
port),

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The bandwidth between chassis (the number of T_Port paths between inter-
connected chassis), 

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The physical distances required between users in a “campus” distributed 
fabric verses a centrally located fabric.

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MKII compatibility. SANbox switch fabrics support MKII switches as IO/T 
chassis in mesh and Multistage topologies.

These topics are discussed for each topology later in this section.

NOTE:
In order to set up a multi-chassis fabric you are required to select a topology, cable 
the chassis together, and configure each chassis.

Configuration consists of assigning a stage type to a chassis which tells it which 
function it is to perform (IO/T or CC). In the case of a Cascade or Mesh topology, 
all chassis are the default stage type (IO/T). A Multistage switch consists of IO/T 
and CC chassis. For addressing purposes, you must also assign a Chassis Number 
to each chassis.

Refer to

 for information about choosing a fabric 

topology. After choosing the fabric topology, refer to 

 and 

 for the remaining instructions.