What does “Fabric card redundancy 1:8 on CRS 16 slot” mean?

[ปลาวาฬทราย RMUTT CPE IX]

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/crs-1-16-slot-single-shelf-system/product_data_sheet09186a008022d5f3.html

Thank you very much.

[Nicolas Fevrier]

Hi,

They meant to say that the CRS 16-slot chassis is using 8 distinct fabric cards and (in most of the configurations) losing one of these fabric card can still guarantee line rate capacity for the line cards in the system.

Best regards,

N.