Brocade Communications Systems Brocade VDX 8770-4 - Manual (Page 22)

2 Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual
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Brocade VDX 8770-4 hardware components
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• Support for short-range (SR) and long-range (LR) 1 Gbps SFP transceivers
• Support for SR and LR 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers
• Support for 40 Gbps QSFP transceivers
• Support for active twinaxial (twinax) cable at 1, 3, and 5 meters for 10 GbE ports
• NEBS-compliant chassis (certification in process)
• Support for in-band management
• 8U form factor for chassis (10U with intake duct kit)
• Support for Brocade trunking through the 48x10G line card module (maximum of eight ports
per trunk)
• Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Brocade VDX 8770-4 hardware components
The Brocade VDX 8770-4 features a modular and scalable mechanical construction that allows a
wide range of flexibility in installation, fabric design, and maintenance. The minimum chassis
configuration is one MM, one SFM, and one line card. The chassis can be mounted with the cables
facing the front of the equipment rack and consists of the following components:
• Four slots for hot-swappable line cards that can be configured in a single chassis, delivering up
to 192 10 Gbps or 1 Gbps Ethernet (GbE) ports or 48 40 Gbps Ethernet ports.
• Two slots for management modules:
- A single active management module can control all ports in the chassis.
- The standby management module takes control of the Brocade VDX 8770-4 if the active
management module fails.
• Three slots for switch fabric modules that interconnect all line cards.
• Modular, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs):
- 48x10GbE line card
- 48x1GbE line card
- 12x40GbE line card
- Two fan assemblies
- Up to four 3000W power supplies, 200–240 VAC auto-sensing or -48 VDC (each power
supply connection should be separately fused)
- The 48x10GbE line cards support 10 GbE SFP+ and 1 GbE SFP optical transceivers, as
well as 1 GbE copper SFP transceivers. They also support direct-attach 10 GbE copper
twinax cables at 1, 3, or 5 meters.
- The 12x40GbE line card supports 40 GbE QSFP optical transceivers.
• Two vertical cable management finger assemblies