Features And Specifications - IBM Brocade 4 Gb SAN Switch Module Installation Manual

Features and specifications

This section provides a summary of the features and specifications of the switch module. The switch
module has the following features:
• One PPC405GP processor that operates at 200 MHz
• One 256 Kb serial electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (SEEPROM)
• One real-time clock with a 10-year battery
• Two temperature sensors
• Six external autosensing Fibre Channel ports that operate at a maximum of 4 Gbps (gigabits per
second)
• Fourteen internal fixed-speed Fibre Channel ports that operate at a maximum of 4 Gbps
• Two internal full-duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces, terminated at a single MAC
• Power-on diagnostics and status reporting
• Standard Ethernet and Fibre Channel management information base (MIB) support
• External ports that can be configured as F_ports (fabric ports), FL_ports (fabric loop ports), or
E_ports (expansion ports)
• Internal ports that are configured as F_ports at 2 Gbps or 4 Gbps
• Frame-filtering technology that enables advanced zoning and monitoring capabilities
• Optional small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules
The following software features come with the switch module:
• Brocade* Advanced Web Tools
• Brocade Advanced Zoning
• Two 5-port licenses
• Support for Brocade Fabric Access API and API Scripting Toolkit
For information about the standard software features, see the Brocade documentation on the
Resource CD. See "Related documentation" on page 5 for descriptions of these documents.
For information about optional advanced software features, see Chapter 6, "Optional features of the
Brocade 4 Gb SAN switch modules," on page 27.
The following table contains the specifications of the I/O module.
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