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Fibre channel
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System component Description
Extension Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel,
in-flight compression ( LZO) BB credit recovery; Extension
trunking, FICON Extension, IP Extension, Adaptive Rate Limiting
(ARL), data compression, Fast Write, read/write Tape Pipelining,
QoS
FICON FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP;
Advanced Accelerator for FICON (IBM z/OS Global Mirror and
read/write Tape Pipelining)
Inter-chassis link Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the core routing
(ICL) (CR) blade
System component Description
Fibre Channel ports SAN256B-6 : Up to 192 32-Gbps ports, universal (F_Port, E_Port,
EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, FICON)
SAN512B-6 : Up to 384 32-Gbps ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port,
EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port, FICON)
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
ANSI Fibre Channel FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)
protocol
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW 5.0
IP Extension (IP over Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile
Fibre Channel)
Port to port latency Local switching - 900 ns (including FEC) any port to any port;
Blade to blade - 2.7 microseconds (including FEC) E_Port to E_Port
Switching capacity An aggregate switching capacity of 13.5 billion frames per second
(for Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames for a 384-port chassis)
System component Description
Port status Bicolor (green and amber) Fibre Channel port status LED on port
blades displaying nine different LED states based on FC port
activity and status.
Bicolor (green and amber) QSFP ICL port LED on core routing
blades displaying four different states based on activity and status
of all four lanes.
Bicolor (green and amber) Fibre Channel port status on extension
blades displaying eight different LED states based on port activity
and status.
Bicolor (green and amber) Ethernet port status on extension blades
displaying four different LED states based on port activity and
status.
Blade power and Unicolor (green) displaying power off and power on condition.
status
Unicolor (amber) LED displaying four different LED states based
on blade operation.