53-1002177-19 Hardware Installation Guide
Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Installation Guide
Application and Encryption Blades
Introduction
This appendix provides details about the application and encryption blades that are available optionally for the device.
Contact your device 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:
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16 autosensing F_Ports, FL_Ports, E_Ports, EX_Ports, and M_Ports at 8 Gbps FC ports
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16 SFP media interfaces
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Encryption engines
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Key management/generation
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Key management with these hardware interfaces:
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Two 1000Base copper type media interfaces
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One smart card interface
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Security supervisor tamper detection and response capability
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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 (10-GbE or 10-GE) 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.
NOTE
The port diagram on the front panel uses the abbreviations GE for 1-GbE ports and 10 GE for 10-GbE ports.
NOTE
The 10-GbE SFPs used in the FX8-24 blade and the 10-Gbps FC SFPs used in the FC16-32/48 blades are not
interchangeable.
The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1-GbE ports, 2) ten 1-GbE ports and one 10-GbE port, or 3) two 10-
GbE ports depending on licensing and subsequent configuration of GbE port mode. If operating in 10-GbE mode, the
other end of the circuit must also be an FX8-24 operating in either 10-GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding
VE_ports in 10-GbE mode. All GbE ports on the blade can be configured to work with either copper or optical SFPs.
The FX8-24 blade is intended as a platform for FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services. Refer to the Brocade Fabric
OS Administration Guide for information on configuring these features.
The FX8-24 blade provides the following hardware features:
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