Application And Encryption Blades; In This Appendix; Fa4-18 Blade; Fr4-18I Blade - Dell PowerConnect B-DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual

Application and Encryption Blades

In this appendix

FA4-18 blade

The FA4-18 blade has 16 physical Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel
Application Services, and two physical Gigabit 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet copper ports
supporting blade management.
The FA4-18 blade is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel Application Services and blade
management. Refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for information on configuring these
features.

FR4-18i blade

The FR4-18i blade has 16 physical Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Routing
Services, and two physical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP
(FCIP) feature. It operates with the Brocade Fabric Operating System and can communicate with
another FR4-18i or a PowerConnect B-7500 for both Fibre Channel Routing services and FCIP, or a
PowerConnect B-AP7420 for Fibre Channel Routing Services.
The FR4-18i blade is intended as a platform for Fibre Channel Routing Services and FCIP. Refer to
the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for information on configuring these features.
The FR4-18i blade provides the following features:
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FA4-18 blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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FR4-18i blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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FS8-18 blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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FX8-24 blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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FCOE10-24 blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Routing Services with link speeds up
to 1, 2, or 4 Gbps.
2 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services with fixed link speed at
1 Gbps:
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Each GbE port can support up to eight FCIP tunnels.
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Each FCIP tunnel is represented and managed as a virtual Fibre Channel E_Port.
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Fibre Channel Routing Services can be used over the FCIP link.
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