whats the difference

Salam,

i have tried google very much but i have some questions

- if i make ether channel of 2 switch ports, will that port get a signal
virtual mac address ?

- is switching and back-plane capacity are same thing?

- what is forward bandwidth is that of L2 forward bandwidth or L3 ?

- what is forwarding rate is that of L2 forwarding rate or L3 ?

- what is throughput

- i have to send audio 24bit audio through cobranet protocol passing
through 4 switches to a speaker, how can i calculate the delay?

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