Brocade Communications Systems FastIron X Series Hardware Installation Guide

2 Brocade FastIron X Series Chassis Hardware Installation Guide
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Product overview
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• Completely separate data and control planes, which results in uncompromised switching
performance, increased reliability of both planes, and increased security of the control plane in
the event of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the data plane.
• Distributed data and control planes, which results in uncompromised wire-speed performance
for the data plane and faster and more efficient performance of management functions for the
control plane.
POE port density
Table 1 shows the maximum POE port density for the FastIron X Series chassis devices.
Supported configurations
Premium FastIron X Series chassis devices support Layer 2 switching and full Layer 3 multiprotocol
routing. Standard devices support Layer 2 and base Layer 3 switching. All standard FastIron X
Series chassis devices can be upgraded to full Layer 3 multiprotocol routing, at which time they are
considered to be premium devices.
Depending on the type of management module installed in the device, IPv6 premium devices
support either IPv4 multiprotocol routing and IPv6 host and management features, or IPv6 and
IPv4 multiprotocol routing and IPv6 host and management features. For more information, refer to
“FSX management modules” on page 14 and “FSX 800 and FSX 1600 management modules” on
page 18.
All FastIron X Series chassis devices optionally support Power over Ethernet (POE), providing the
means for integrating data, voice, and video over existing Ethernet cables.
Table 3 lists the configurations supported on the FastIron X Series chassis devices.
TABLE 1 Maximum number of POE class 3 (15.4W) ports per power supply
Power Supply Number of Power
Supplies
FSX FSX 800 FSX 1600
SX-ACPWR-POE and
SX-DCPWR-POE
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SX-ACPWR-POE and
SX-DCPWR-POE
2 140 140 140
SX-ACPWR-POE and
SX-DCPWR-POE
3 N/A N/A 210
SX-ACPWR-POE and
SX-DCPWR-POE
4 N/A N/A 280
SX-ACPWR2500-POE 1 140 140 140
SX-ACPWR2500-POE 2 280
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1. The FSX and FSX 800 support a maximum of 192 POE ports. The FSX 1600 supports a maximum of 384 POE
ports.
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SX-ACPWR2500-POE 3 N/A N/A 420
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SX-ACPWR2500-POE 4 N/A N/A 560
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Brocade Communications Systems FastIron X Series Specifications

General

Brand	Brocade Communications Systems
Model	FastIron X Series
Category	Switch
Language	English