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Access gateway cascading – Brocade Access Gateway Administrator's Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual

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speeds (such as 1, 2, or 4 Gbps) onto a single high-speed uplink port to the core fabric. This reduces
the number of core fabric ports used by target devices and allows higher scalability.

FIGURE 15 Target aggregation

Access Gateway cascading

Access Gateway cascading is an advanced configuration supported in Access Gateway mode. Access
Gateway cascading allows you to further increase the ratio of hosts to fabric ports to beyond what a
single switch in AG mode can support.

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