General specifications, Data transmission ranges – Brocade Communications Systems Extension Switch 7800 User Manual

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Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual

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General specifications

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ATTENTION

Never use the power cord packed with your equipment for other products.

General specifications

Table 10

lists the general specifications for the Brocade 7800.

Data transmission ranges

Table 11

provides the data transmission ranges for different cable types and port speeds for Fibre

Channel. Up to 500km at 1G is supported when using a long distance transport system such as
DWDM.

Table 12

provides the data transmission ranges for different optical cable types and port speeds

for GbE SFP ports.

Table 13

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

copper-cabled GbE SFP ports and the fixed copper GbE RJ-45 ports.

TABLE 10

General specifications

Specification

Description

Configurable port types

The GbE ports can be VE_Ports.
The Fibre Channel ports can be E_Ports, EX_Ports, FL_Ports, or
F_Ports.

System architecture

Nonblocking shared-memory Extension Switch

System processors

PowerPC 440EPx, 667 MHz CPU
GoldenEye2 switch ASIC
Cavium CN5470 750 MHz processor
Blaster FPGA

ANSI Fibre Channel protocol

FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)

Modes of operation

Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3

Fabric initialization

Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6

FCIP (IP over Fibre Channel)

Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile

Aggregate Extension Switch I/O
bandwidth

A total 268 Gbps:

256 Gbps if all 16 FC ports are running at 8 Gbps, full duplex

12 Gbps if all 6 GbE ports are running at 1 Gbps, full duplex

Port-to-port latency

Less than 2 microseconds with no contention (destination port is
free)

Link cost

The sum of all established/low metric (or currently active) circuits’
MAX rates in the tunnel.

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