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Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
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Intrepid 10000
Director
McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual
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Backplane.
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A minimum of 16 to a maximum of 35 Fibre Channel port cards as
follows:
— UPM cards. Each UPM card provides four 2.1250 Gbps Fibre
Channel port connections through duplex SFP fiber-optic
transceivers.
— XPM cards. Each XPM card provides one 10.2000 Gbps Fibre
Channel port connection through a duplex XFP fiber-optic
transceiver.
For UPM and XPM cards, shortwave laser transceivers are
available for transferring data over multimode fiber-optic cable.
Longwave laser transceivers are available for transferring data
over singlemode fiber-optic cable. Fiber-optic cables attach to
director port transceivers with duplex LC connectors.
The rear of the director provides a 9-pin, DSUB maintenance port for
connection to a local terminal or remote terminal. Although the port
is typically used by authorized maintenance personnel, operations
personnel can use the port to configure director network addresses.
The Intrepid 10000 Director is a fourth-generation, enterprise-class
product that provides switched fabric connectivity for up to 256 Fibre
Channel devices operating at 1.0625 or 2.1250 Gbps, or up to 64
devices operating at 10.2000 Gbps. The product provides high-
performance scalable bandwidth, highly-available operation,
redundant switched data paths, long transmission distances (up to
2,200 km using a pool of programmable buffer-to-buffer credits), and
high device population.
Figure 1-4
illustrates the director.
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