Does using a single cable to connect two switches create a bottleneck?
- by Nick
I realise this may be a stupid question for some, but it's something I've always wondered about.
Let's say we have two gigabit switches and all of the devices on the network are also gigabit.
If 10 computers connected to switch A need to transfer large amounts of data to a server on Switch B (at the same time), is the maximum transfer speed of each connection limited by the bandwidth of the connection between the two switches?
In other words, would each computer only be able to transfer at a speed of one gigabit divided by the 10 machines trying to use the "bridge" between switches?
If so, are there any workarounds so that every device can use it's maximum speed from point to point?