Icx 6450 Stacking Ports And Trunks - Brocade Communications Systems ICX 6610 Installation Manual

FIGURE 36 SFP+ ports on the front panel of the 48-port ICX 6610 model
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ICX 6450 stacking ports and trunks

The ICX 6450 contains four SFP+ ports in slot 2 on the front panel that can be used as uplink (data) ports or as stacking ports. The
following figure shows the ports in slot 2. The top row consists of ports 1 and 3, and the bottom row consists of ports 2 and 4.
FIGURE 37 Stacking ports on the front panel of an ICX 6450
1. Console port
2. Slot 2 (SFP and SFP + uplink or stacking ports)
Ports 1 and 3 are default stacking ports. Default stacking ports have the capability to accept special stacking packets during a CLI-
initiated command sequence of the Secure-Setup utility. If ports 1 and 3 are not used as stacking ports, you can use them as data ports.
Configuration is not required to use them as data ports.
All four ports in slot 2 can be used as stacking ports.
The stacking ports can be grouped into two trunks. Ports 1 and 2 can form a trunk. Ports 3 and 4 can form another trunk. By default,
ICX 6450 devices are not configured for trunking.
On the ICX 6450, ports 1 and 3 are 10 Gbps ports.
NOTE
Without a license at bootup, ICX 6450 ports 2 and 4 come up in 10 Gbps port speed in an error disabled state. To enable
ports 2 and 4 to 10 Gbps port speed, you must purchase the ICX6450-2X10G-LIC-POD license.
For more information about enabling ports 2 and 4 to 10 Gbps port speed, refer to the FastIron Ethernet Switch Administration Guide.
Brocade ICX 6610 Stackable Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Slot 3: 10 Gbps SFP+ ports 1-8 2
3. Out-of-band management port
4. Slot 1 (10/100/1000 Mbps ports)
Connecting devices in a mixed stack
Slot 1: 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
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