IBM SAN04B-R - System Storage Router Installation, Service And User Manual page 30

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SAN04B-R Installation, Service, and User's Guide
When running FCIP over high-latency, low-speed links, the router offers additional
features such as:
v Hardware-based compression
v Up to eight FCIP tunnels per Ethernet port
v Extensive buffering
v Hierarchical routing services
v SAN isolation from WAN failures
v Scalable remote site fan-in
v Hardware-based encryption
v Write acceleration for fast replication performance
Optional features of the router include:
v High-Performance Extension Activation, enabling additional routing capabilities
v IBM Fiber Connection (FICON
to provide in-band management capability
v FICON Accelerator, designed to support secure data movement across enterprise
data centers
v A wide range of SFP transceivers capable of up to 4 Gbps FC and 50 Mbps
Ethernet
v Performance monitoring activation, which monitors performance to help identify
end-to-end bandwidth usage
v Trunking activation, which is enables FC packets to be efficiently distributed
across multiple ISL connections between two SAN b-type fabric switches, while
preserving in-order delivery
v An upgrade license that activates all 16 FC ports and enables Gigabit Ethernet
(GbE) speeds on the Ethernet ports, and permits the full complement of features,
including those available with the High-Performance Extension license.
Once the router is configured, the switchShow command displays 16 Fibre
Channel ports (port numbers 0 through 15) and 2 GbE ports. The first two Fibre
Channel ports (0-1) are installed physical ports on the router. The next 14 Fibre
Channel physical ports (2-15) are not enabled unless the upgrade license is
purchased. Virtual ports 16 and 24 are virtual ports associated with the GE0
physical GbE link and GE1 physical GbE link, respectively. With the upgrade
license, you can configure up to eight virtual ports per GbE port as tunnel
connections.
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) Protocol with Control Unit Port (CUP), designed