Fs8-18 Blade; Fx8-24 Blade - Dell PowerConnect B-DCX-4S Backbone Hardware Reference Manual

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FS8-18 blade

FS8-18 blade
The FS8-18 encryption blade is a high performance 16 port auto-sensing blade with data
cryptographic (encryption/decryption) and data compression capabilities designed for enterprises
to secure their data against theft or unauthorized use and to compress tape data for maximum
utilization of tape media. The encryption blade is a network-based solution that secures
data-at-rest for heterogeneous tape drives, disk array LUNs, and virtual tape libraries.
The FS8-18 blade provides the following major features:
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FX8-24 blade

The FX8-24 blade has 12 external Fibre Channel (FC) SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel
Routing Services and 10 external 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or GE) SFP ports supporting the Fibre
Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. There are also 2 licensable external 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE or
10GE) SFP ports supporting FCIP. It operates with the Brocade Fabric Operating System and can
communicate with another FX8-24 or a PowerConnect B-7800 for both Fibre Channel Routing
Services and FCIP, or a PowerConnect B-AP7420 for Fibre Channel Routing Services. The GbE ports
on the FX8-24 are NOT compatible with the GbE ports on the FR4-18i blade or the PowerConnect
B-7500 switch.
NOTE
The port diagram on the front panel uses the abbreviations GE for 1 GbE and 10GE for 10 GbE ports.
The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1GbE ports, 2) ten 1GbE ports and one 10 GbE
port, or 3) two 10 GbE ports depending on licensing and subsequent configuration of GbE port
mode. If operating in 10GbE mode the other end of the circuit must also be an FX8-24 operating in
either 10GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding VE_ports in 10GbE mode. All GbE ports
on the blade can be configured to work with either copper or optical SFPs.
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Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as VE_Ports, and do not
merge if they are configured as VEX_Ports. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre Channel Routing
Services backbone fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric merges, but the
EX_Port-attached edge fabrics do not merge. For more information refer to the Fabric OS
Administrator's Guide.
16 auto-sensing F, FL, E, EX, and M ports at 8 Gbps FC ports
16 SFP media interfaces
Encryption engines
Key management/generation
Key management with these hardware interfaces:
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Two 1000Base copper type media interfaces
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One smart card interface
Security supervisor tamper detection and response capability
CC (Common Criteria) EAL-3 compliant
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