Fabric Specifications; Figure 34. Ethernet Growth Path - Dell PowerEdge M1000e Technical Manual

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Fabric Encoding
PCIe Gen1 8B/10B
PCIe Gen2 8B/10B
SATA 3Gbps 8B/10B
SATA 6Gbps 8B/10B
SAS 3Gbps 8B/10B
SAS 6Gbps 8B/10B
FC 4Gbps 8B/10B
FC 8bps 8B/10B
IB SDR 8B/10B
IB DDR 8B/10B
IB QDR 8B/10B
GbE: 1000BASE- 8B/10B
KX
10GbE: 8B/10B
10GBASE-KX4
10GbE: 64B/66B
10GBASE-KR
The M1000e is designed for full support of all near-, medium- and long-term I/O infrastructure needs.
While the M1000e system's bandwidth capabilities lead the industry, the M1000e is also intelligently
designed for maximum cost, flexibility and performance benefit.
While Fabric A is dedicated to the server module LOMs, requiring Ethernet switch or passthrough
modules for I/O slots A1 and A2, Fabrics B and C can be populated with Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or
InfiniBand solutions.
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Fabric Specifications

Table 6.
Symbol Rate Data Rate Per
Per Lane (Gbps) Lane (Gbps)
2.5 2
5 4
3 2.4
6 4.8
3 2.4
6 4.8
4.25 3.4
8.5 6.8
2.5 2
5 4
10 8
1.25 1
3.125 2.5
10.3125 10

Figure 34. Ethernet Growth Path

Data Rate Lanes Per Link
Per Link Per Industry
(Gbps) Specification
8 (4 lane) 1,2,4,8,12,16,32
16 (4 lane) 1,2,4,8,12,16,32
2.4 1
4.8 1
2.4 1-Any
4.8 1-Any
3.4 1
6.8 1
8 (4 lane) 4,12
16 (4 lane) 4,12
32 (4 lane) 4,12
1 1
10 (4 lane) 4
10 1
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