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— 32-port Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch.
— 12-port Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch. The switch provides
both switched fabric and Fibre Channel arbitrated loop
(FC-AL) connectivity.
— 16-port Sphereon 4400 Fabric Switch. The switch provides
both switched fabric and FC-AL connectivity.
— 24-port Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch. The switch provides
both switched fabric and FC-AL connectivity.
— 32-port Sphereon 4700 Fabric Switch. The switch provides
both switched fabric and FC-AL connectivity.
Refer to Fabric Switches
product.
• Eclipse™-series SAN routers - A SAN router is a low port count,
high-bandwidth product that unifies storage and networking
architectures and provides metropolitan area network (MAN) or
wide area network (WAN) extended distance access and multi-
protocol access to traditional Fibre Channel SANs. McDATA
offers the:
— Four-port Eclipse 1620 SAN Router.
— 16-port Eclipse 2640 SAN Router.
Refer to SAN Routers
McDATA products (except the Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch) are
managed and controlled through a rack-mount management server
with a SAN management application installed. Multiple products
and the management server communicate on a local area network
(LAN) through one or more 10/100 Base-T Ethernet hubs. Each hub
provides 24 Ethernet connections. Hubs are daisy-chained as
required to provide additional Ethernet connections as more directors
and switches are installed on a customer network.
Per customer request, directors and switches are delivered separately
or installed in a McDATA FC-512 Fabricenter
The rack-mount management server is mounted at the cabinet center,
and one Ethernet hub is mounted at the cabinet top.
illustrates two Fabricenter equipment cabinets populated with the
following:
1. Ethernet hub.
2. Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch.
Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products
for detailed information about each
for detailed information about each product.
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equipment cabinet.
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