Dc04 San Director System Architecture - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Hardware Reference Manual

Table 43 DC04 SAN Director system architecture
Fibre Channel Ports
Control Processor
Scalability
Performance
ISL Trunking
Aggregate bandwidth
Switch latency
Maximum frame size
Frame buffers
Classes of service
Port types
Data traffic types
Media types
212 Technical specifications
Up to 192 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, FL_port, Ex_port, and M_port)
Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules
Full fabric architecture: 239 switches maximum
1.063 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
2.125 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
8.50 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
10.51875 Gb/s line speed, full duplex (with FC10-6 blade)
Autosensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds optionally programmable to fixed
port speed, speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds
Can use up to 8 ports in a trunk group to form a 64 Gb/s trunk
3 Tbps per chassis
FC8-16 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-32 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-48 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FR4-18i blade:
<3.6 µsec any port to any port at 4 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
2112-byte payload
2048 per ASIC, dynamically allocated
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
The FC8-16 and FC8-32 supports these port types:
FL_Port, F_Port, E_Port, and M_Port
FC8-48 supports these port types:
E_Port, F_Port, and M_Port
FC10-6 supports this port type:
E_Port and M_Port
FR4-18i supports these port types:
FL_Port, F_Port, E_Ports, M_Port, VE_Port, EX_Port, and VEX_Port
NOTE: Self-discovery is based on switch type (U_Port) with an optional port type
control.
Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast
Hot-pluggable, industry-standard small form factor pluggable (SFP) or extended
form factor pluggable (XFP, FC10-6 only), LC connector;
- short-wave laser (SWL), up to 500 m (1,640 ft.);
- long-wave laser (LWL), up to 10 km (6.2 mi);
- extended long-wave laser (ELWL), up to 80 km (49.6 mi); distance depends on
fiber optic cable and port speed