Are the X6148A cards dedicated 1 gb/s uplink for each port ( shared 32 Gb/s bus , as long as each port is it's own 1 gb/s still to the 32gb/s bus and not shared with 7 other ports, so effectively just 125Mb/s per port then if all used at full/even capacity) ? I can't really find anything much on X6148A internal architecture online, but it would seem that each port gets its own 1gb/s link to the card/backplane, and that the bottleneck then is the 32gb/s backplane (which is fine, as long as it's not 1 gb/s per each set of 8 ports!). Best regards, Scott Spencer Data Center Asset Recovery/Remarketing Manager Duane Whitlow & Co. Inc. Nationwide Toll Free: 800.977.7473. Direct: 972.865.1395 Fax: 972.931.3340 <mailto:scott@dwc-computer.com> scott@dwc-computer.com <http://www.dwc-it.com/> www.dwc-it.com Sales of new and used Cisco/Juniper/F5/Foundry/Brocade/Sun/IBM/Dell/Liebert and more ~