Network cabling requirements
The network cables that can be used with the CN4093 switch are shown in Table 7.
Table 7. CN4093 network cabling requirements
Transceiver
40 Gb Ethernet
40GBASE-SR QSFP+
Transceiver (49Y7884)
40GBASE-iSR4 QSFP+
Transceiver (00D9865)
40GBASE-eSR4 QSFP+
Transceiver (00FE325)
40GBASE-LR4 QSFP+
Transceiver (00D6222)
Direct attach cable
10 Gb Ethernet
10GBASE-SR SFP+
Transceiver (46C3447,
00NU537)
10GBASE-LR SFP+
Transceiver (90Y9412)
Direct attach cable
1 Gb Ethernet
1000BASE-T SFP
Transceiver (00FE333)
1000BASE-SX SFP
Transceiver (81Y1622)
1000BASE-LX SFP
Transceiver (90Y9424)
8 Gb Fibre Channel (operating at 8 Gbps or 4 Gbps)
8Gb SFP+ SW Optical
Transceiver (44X1964)
Management ports
External 1 GbE
management port
External RS-232
management port
Warranty
Flex System Fabric CN4093 10Gb Converged Scalable Switch (withdrawn product)
Standard
Cable
40GBASE-SR4
10 m or 30 m MTP fiber optics cables supplied by Lenovo
(see Table 3); support for up to 100 m (OM3 multimode
fiber) or up to 150 m (OM4 multimode fiber)
40GBASE-SR4
10 m or 30 m MTP fiber optics cables or MTP-4xLC
breakout cables up to 5 m supplied by Lenovo (see Table
3); support for up to 100 m with OM3 multimode fiber or
up to 150 m with OM4 multimode fiber
40GBASE-SR4
10 m or 30 m MTP fiber optics cables or MTP-4xLC
breakout cables up to 5 m supplied by Lenovo (see Table
3); support for up to 300 m with OM3 multimode fiber or
up to 400 m with OM4 multimode fiber
40GBASE-LR4
1310 nm single-mode fiber cable up to 10 km
40GBASE-CR4
QSFP+ to QSFP+ DAC cables up to 7 m; QSFP+ to 4x
SFP+ DAC break-out cables up to 5 m for 4x 10 GbE
SFP+ connections out of a 40 GbE port (see Table 3)
10GBASE-SR
Up to 30 m with fiber cables supplied by Lenovo (see
Table 3); 850 nm OM3 multimode fiber (50 µ or 62.5 µ) up
to 300 m or up to 400 m with OM4 multimode fiber
10GBASE-LR
1310 nm single-mode fiber cable up to 10 km
10GSFP+Cu
SFP+ DAC cables up to 7 m (see Table 3)
1000BASE-T
UTP Category 5, 5E, and 6 up to 100 meters
1000BASE-SX
Up to 30 m with fiber optic cables supplied by Lenovo
(see Table 3); 850 nm multimode fiber cable up to 550 m
(50 µ) or up to 220 m (62.5 µ)
1000BASE-LX
1310 nm single-mode fiber cable up to 10 km
FC-PI-4 (8GFC,
Up to 30 m with fiber optic cables supplied by Lenovo
4GFC)
(see Table 3); 850 nm multimode fiber, 50 µ (up to 150 m
at 8 Gbps; up to 380 m at 4 Gbps) or 62.5 µ (up to 21 m at
8 Gbps; up to 70 m at 4 Gbps)
1000BASE-T
UTP Category 5, 5E, and 6 up to 100 meters
RS-232
DB-9-to-mini-USB or RJ-45-to-mini-USB console cable
(comes with optional Management Serial Access Cable,
90Y9338)
Connector
MTP
MTP
MTP
LC
QSFP+
LC
LC
SFP+
RJ-45
LC
LC
LC
RJ-45
Mini-USB
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