Fibre Channel Switch Module - IBM 8677 - BladeCenter Rack-mountable - Power Supply Planning And Installation Manual

Fibre Channel switch module

The IBM BladeCenter Fibre Channel switch module features include:
v Ports:
v Fibre Channel Protocols:
v Fibre Channel Classes of Service: Classes 2 and 3
v Modes of Operation: Fibre Channel Classes 2 and 3, connectionless
v External Port Type: GL_Port
v Port characteristics: External ports are auto-discovering and self-configuring.
v Scalability: Maximum 239 switches depending on configuration
v Maximum User Ports: 475,000 ports depending on configuration
v Media Type: Small Form Pluggable (SFP) hot pluggable, optical transceivers.
v Fabric Port Speed: 1.0625 or 2.125 Gigabits/second
v Maximum Frame Size: 2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)
v Fabric Point-to-Point Bandwidth: 212 or 424 MBs full duplex
v Fabric Aggregate Bandwidth: 64 MBs for a single switch
v Fibre Channel Cable Media: 9 micron single mode, 50 micron multi-mode, or
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BladeCenter Type 8677: Planning and Installation Guide
– Two external ports to connect to storage devices or Storage Area Networks
– Fourteen internal ports to connect to blade servers
– FC-PH Rev. 4.3
– FC-PH-2
– FC-PH-3
– FC-AL Rev 4.5
– FC-AL-2 Rev 7.0
– FC-FLA
– FC-GS-3
– FC-FG
– FC-PLDA
– FC-Tape FC-VI
– FC-SW-2
– Fibre Channel Element MIB RFC 2837
– Fibre Alliance MIB Version 3.0
62.5 micron multi-mode