Intrepid 10000 Director - McDATA StorageWorks 2/140 - Director Switch Planning Manual

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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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.

Intrepid 10000 Director

Figure 1-4
The director supports McDATA's non-blocking nScale™ architecture
that allows the product to be flexibly partitioned into multiple
(up to four) separate directors (FlexPar™ feature), each with its own
management and Fibre Channel services subsystems. In addition, the
director supports concurrent firmware downloads through HotCAT
technology. FlexPar-specific software can also be independently and
Figure 1-4 illustrates the director.