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Cut-Through Routing

A packet is forwarded by the switch as it arrives.

Packet is pipelined through the switches in units of flits.

Latency of sending a packet point-to-point over an unloaded network is:

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h is the number of hops (channels traversed).



Paul H J Kelly Fri Apr 24 19:49:58 BST 1998