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Application and Encryption Blades
● Introduction................................................................................................................... 127
● FS8-18 blade.................................................................................................................127
● FX8-24 blade.................................................................................................................127
Introduction
This appendix provides details about the application and encryption blades that are available optionally
for the Brocade DCX 8510-4. Contact your Brocade DCX 8510-4 supplier for additional information.
FS8-18 blade
The FS8-18 encryption blade is a high performance 16-port autosensing 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:
• 16 autosensing F_Ports, FL_Ports, E_Ports, EX_Ports, and M_Ports at 8 Gbps FC ports
• 16 SFP media interfaces
• Encryption engines
• Key management/generation
• Key management with these hardware interfaces:
‐ Two 1000Base copper type media interfaces
‐ One smart card interface
• Security supervisor tamper detection and response capability
• Common Criteria (CC) EAL-3 compliant
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 Brocade 7800 for both Fibre Channel Routing Services and FCIP, or a Brocade
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, the Brocade 7500 switch, and the Brocade 7840 switch.
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