4700 Specifications; 4700 Architecture; 4700 Fabric Board (Sfb-4700) Specifications; 4700 Line Board (Slb-4018) Specifications - Mellanox Technologies Grid Director 4700 Installation Manual

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4700 Specifications

3.1

4700 Architecture

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9 slots of Fabric boards in front of the chassis
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18 slots for Line Boards
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Based on passive Midplane board which allow the IB differential signals, control signals
and power connectivity between the different boards in the chassis
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Cables for InfiniBand, management, and power all located at the rear
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Up to 324 InfiniBand QSFP (40 Gbps) ports
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Bisectional switch bandwidth (QDR): 51.8 Tbps
3.2

4700 Fabric Board (sFB-4700) Specifications

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Up to 9 hot-swappable Fabric Boards running at Quad Data Rate (QDR) which support the
switching Clos topology
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Hot-swappable operation with no traffic disruptions
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On board high performance, low power CPU for low-level chassis management purposes
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EEPROMs to store the switch ASIC ERP (Embedded RISC processor) code
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Indicators: Physical connectivity and logical connectivity LEDs per Line Board link port,
power, Rdy and Info LED.
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On-board temperature monitoring reported to Management system
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Thermal shutdown for over temperature sensing
3.3

4700 Line Board (sLB-4018) Specifications

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Up to 18 sLB-4018 hot-swappable Line Boards (sLB) running at 40 Gbps Quad Data Rate
(QDR)
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18 auto-sensing QSFP InfiniBand ports (40 Gbps)
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Hot-swappable operation with no traffic disruptions
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All ports support copper or optical cables
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Indicators: Physical connectivity and logical connectivity LEDs per port, power, Rdy and
info LEDs
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On board high performance, low power CPU for low-level chassis management purposes
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On-board temperature monitoring reported to Management system
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Thermal shutdown for over temperature sensing
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Data throughput QDR - 2.88 Tbps
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4700 Specifications