Brocade Communications Systems VDX 6940 Hardware Installation Manual page 20

Device Overview
FIGURE 2 Brocade VDX 6940 in medium deployments
• Using the Brocade VDX 6940-36Q or Brocade VDX 6940-144S as leaf devices in larger VCS
deployments. The Brocade VDX 6940 40 GbE ports can uplink to spine devices, such as the
Brocade VDX 8770. The Brocade VDX 6940-36Q40 GbE ports configured in 4x10 GbE breakout
mode to provide 10 GbE links and the fixed 10 GbE ports on the Brocade VDX 6940-144S can
downlink to edge nodes, such as servers.
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