Fabric profiles allow access and network ingress to-fabric shapers to have user-configurable rates of switching throughput from an adapter card towards the fabric.
Two fabric profile modes are supported: per-destination mode and aggregate mode. Both modes offer shaping towards the fabric from an adapter card, but per-destination shapers offer the maximum flexibility by precisely controlling the amount of traffic to each destination card at a user-defined rate.
For the 7705 SAR-8 Shelf V2 and the 7705 SAR-18, the maximum rate depends on a number of factors, including platform, chassis variant, and slot type. See Configurable Ingress Shaping to Fabric (Access and Network) for details. For information about fabric shaping on the 7705 SAR-M, 7705 SAR-H, 7705 SAR-Hc, 7705 SAR-A, 7705 SAR-Ax, and 7705 SAR-Wx, see Fabric Shaping on the Fixed Platforms (Access and Network).