Brocade Communications Systems ICX 6430 Hardware Installation Manual page 40

Connecting devices in a mixed stack
FIGURE 30 Dedicated stacking ports and trunks on the rear panel of an ICX 6610 device
1. Port 1, 40 Gbps
2. Trunk 0
3. Port 2, 4 x 10 Gbps
4. Port 6, 40 Gbps
5. Trunk 1
6. Port 7, 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 9 Port connections for trunking between ICX 6610 devices
Valid port connections
Device 1
Port 1 to
Port 1 to
Port 2 to
• If you connect both ports in a trunk, both ports must connect to both ports of one trunk on another device.
NOTE
If you use the Secure Setup utility to set up a mixed stack, the stacking units (ICX 6610 devices and ICX 6450 devices) are
automatically trunked.
Ports used to connect ICX 6610 devices to ICX 6450 devices
There are eight SFP+ ports in slot 3 on the front panel of an ICX 6610 device that are used to connect ICX 6610 devices to ICX 6450
devices in a mixed stack. The following first figure shows the 10 Gbps SFP+ ports in slot 3 of a 24-port device. The following second
figure shows the 10 Gbps SFP+ ports in slot 3 of a 48-port device.
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Device 2
Port 1
Port 6
Port 2
Invalid port connections
Device 1
Port 1 to
Port 1 to
Port 2 to
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Device 2
Port 2
Port 7
Port 1
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