Data Transmission Ranges; General Specifications; Supported Cable Speeds And Distances - HP A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Hardware Reference Manual

Data transmission ranges

Table 26 provides the data transmission ranges for different cable types and port speeds.
Table 26

Supported cable speeds and distances

Cable type
Single Mode
Multi Mode

General specifications

The DC Director is compliant with United States and International safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility
(EMC) Electromagnetic Compatibility standards.
Director.
Table 27

General specifications

Specification
Configurable port types
System architecture
System processor
ANSI fibre channel protocol
Modes of operation
Fabric initialization
FC-IP (IP over fibre channel)
Aggregate I/O bandwidth
Port to port latency
Routing capacity
108 Technical specifications
Speed
9 microns 2 Gbps
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
50 microns 2 Gbps
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
62.5 microns 2 Gbps
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
Description
F_Port, FL_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, VEX_Port, VE_Port, and M_Port
Nonblocking shared memory
FreeScale 8548, 1.2 GHz
FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)
Fibre Channel Class 2, Class 3, and Class F
Complies with FC-SW 5.0
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile
6144 Gbps, end-to-end
Less than 2 microseconds with no contention (destination port is free)
A minimum aggregate routing capacity of four million frames per
second (for Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames in a 64-port switch)
Minimum
distance
2 m
2 m
2 m
0.5 m
0.5 m
0.5 m
0.5 m
0.5 m
0.5 m
Table 27 lists the general specifications for the DC
Maximum
distance
10,000 m
10,000 m
1, 000 m
300 m (OM2)
500 m (OM3)
150 m (OM2)
380 m (OM3)
50 m (OM2)
150 m (OM3)
150 m
70 m
21 m