A layer-1 switch connects ports at the level of the electrical or optical signal: it regenerates the bits of one input on the outputs configured for it without decoding frames, so it neither reads addresses nor queues. A layer-1 fan-out is a configuration that copies one input to several outputs at once. A layer-1 multiplexer merges the frames of several inputs onto one output; unlike a fan-out it must recognise frame boundaries and hold a frame that arrives while another is being sent.
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Example 2.6 (Two servers, one handoff)
A 100-byte order occupies of line time at . If two of the firm’s servers answer the same market event with delays of standard deviation , the second order waits with probability . The firm’s own servers are competing with each other at the multiplexer at the moment that matters most, and the one whose response was faster by a few nanoseconds is the one that goes first.