A load-balanced switch is a switch architecture which guarantees 100% throughput, (the equivalent of perfect arbitration), with no central arbitration at all, at the cost of sending each packet across the crossbar twice. Load-balanced switches are a subject of research for large routers scaled past the point of practical central arbitration.
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