X7-8-Install-IG100 Installation Guide
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X7-8 Director Hardware Installation Guide
Port and Extension Blades
FC32-X7-48 Port Blade Overview
The FC32-X7-48 port blade has 48 front end 32Gb/s FC SFP+ ports with an edge switch interconnect to the core blades.
All FC blade features are supported. Supported SFPs include 32Gb/s, 16Gb/s, and 10Gb/s FC.
Each FC32-X7-48 blade supports up to 48 Fibre Channel ports that provide 32Gb/s, 16Gb/s, 8Gb/s, and 4Gb/s.
Each port blade provides 48 backplane port connections to core routing blades. The port blade supports port-based in-
flight encryption/decryption and compression/decompression.
Port and extension blades can be mixed in device slots 3–6 and 9–12, but CR64-8 blades must be installed in slots 7 and
8. Up to eight hot-swappable port blades can be installed in a single chassis to provide up to 384 32Gb/s FC ports.
Optics such as the following can be installed in the blade's FC ports. For a complete list of transceivers, see Supported
Transceivers and Cables.
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32Gb/s SFP+ transceivers supporting speeds 32Gb/s, 16Gb/s, and 8Gb/s.
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16Gb/s SFP+ transceivers supporting speeds 16Gb/s, 8Gb/s, and 4Gb/s.
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10Gb/s SFP+ transceivers supporting 10Gb/s.
Port blades contain the following LED indicators:
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Green blade power LED
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Amber blade status LED
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Bicolor green/amber FC port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, see Interpreting FC32-X7-48 Port Blades.
FC32-X7-48 Port Blade Numbering and Trunking
The following figure shows how ports are numbered on the blade:
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