Store-and-forward wire time

Metal 09

Estimate

Host A sends two frames to host B over 25 Gbit/s links and two store-and-forward switches. On the wire the small frame is 84 bytes and the full frame is 1,538 bytes. Each frame finds an idle path. How many µs longer does the full frame take?

100 ps1 ns10 ns100 ns1 µs10 µs100 µs1 ms10 ms

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