A Non-Blocking Fabric is a switch network engineered so that any set of endpoints can communicate at full line rate simultaneously without contention in the interconnect. Achieved by provisioning enough spine capacity for the leaf uplinks, it is the target for AI training clusters and storage backends where sustained all-to-all traffic would otherwise be throttled by oversubscription.
Category: Network & Connectivity · Subcategory: Data Center Network Architecture · Part of the AIDC Technical Terminology reference.