How many monitoring points require a core switch
For systems with fewer than 32 channels, a core switch is generally unnecessary. A core switch, installed in the core layer, serves as the hub of the network architecture, primarily used for high-speed data exchange and connecting multiple subnets or LANs. The aggregation switches then send traffic from the aggregation layer to a core layer through up to 8x100-GbE links (towards two core switches) and then connect the core switches to the FortiGate devices for the core security services; the routing uses 100-Gbps links.
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