Icx 6610 Stacking Ports And Trunks - Brocade Communications Systems ICX 6610 Installation Manual

TABLE 12 Stacking ports used in mixed stacking (continued)
Device Stacking ports

ICX 6610 stacking ports and trunks

This section discusses the ports you can use to connect the ICX 6610 in the backbone and to ICX 6450 devices.
Ports used to connect ICX 6610 devices in the backbone
The ICX 6610 contains four ports in slot 2 on the rear panel that are dedicated stacking ports. They cannot be used as data ports, even
when stacking is not enabled. There are two 40 Gbps ports and two 4 x 10 Gbps ports arranged in two rows.
The stacking ports can be grouped into two trunks. Ports 1 and 2 on the top row can form trunk 0; ports 6 and 7 on the bottom row can
form trunk 1.
You can trunk stacking ports by connecting one port of each type (40 Gbps or 4 x 10 Gbps) to ports of the same type on another ICX
6610 in the stack. The following figure shows the stacking ports and trunks.
FIGURE 34 Dedicated stacking ports and trunks on the rear panel of an ICX 6610
1. 1-Port 1, 40 Gbps
2. 2-Trunk 0
3. 3-Port 2, 4 x 10 Gbps
Trunking requirements
• You can connect one or both ports in a trunk. Connecting both ports in a trunk increases stacking bandwidth and provides
resiliency.
• You must connect each port type (40 Gbps or 4x10 Gbps) to the same type of port on another device as shown in the
following table.
TABLE 13 Port connections for trunking between ICX 6610 devices
Valid port connections
Device 1
Port 1 to
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Device 2
Port 1
Ports Speed
4. 4-Port 6, 40 Gbps
5. 5-Trunk 1
6. 6-Port 7, 4 x 10 Gbps
Invalid port connections
Device 1
Port 1 to
Connecting devices in a mixed stack
Connection type
ICX 6450 to ICX
6450
Device 2
Port 2
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