Bisection bandwidth

If the network is segmented into two equal parts, this is the bandwidth between the two parts.^[1] Typically, this refers to the worst-case segmentation, but being of equal parts is critical to the definition, as it refers to an actual bisection of the network.

References

1. ^ John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson (2003). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (Third Edition ed.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. ISBN 1558605967.