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non-blocking
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The ability of a signal to reach its destination without interference or delay. In a non-blocking switch, all ports can run at full wire speed without any loss of packets or cells.
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Asynchronous I/O is nonblocking, meaning that the function call to read from or write to a file returns before the request is complete.
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The Cisco CRS-1 is a nonblocking, self-routed multishelf system that scales from 1.
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