The GIGAswitch/FDDI system utilizes a crossbar switching fabric to handle the demands of multi-technology backbones, supporting FDDI, Fast Ethernet, and ATM technologies. The 100 Mbps full duplex GIGAswitch/FDDI delivers throughput of up to 3.4 Gbps, providing 6.25 million packets per second (pps) with average switch latency of 15 microseconds.