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Fabric Adapters
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External serial FLASH memory • Stores firmware and adapter BIOS code
• 4 MB capacity
Fibre Channel performance 500,000 IOPs (maximum)
1,000,000 IOPS per dual-port adapter
Throughput per port (full-duplex mode):
• 1600 MB at 16 Gbps
• 1600 MB at 8 Gbps
• 800 MB at 4 Gbps
• 400 MB at 2 Gbps
Ethernet performance 10.312 Gbps throughput per port
Line rate performance for 700-byte packets.
Low latency: receive 1.5us, transmit 2us.
Topology Ethernet - 10 Gbps DCB
Fibre Channel - Point-to-Point (N_Port)
Data protection Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) on PCIE and
line-side links
ECC within the ASIC memory blocks (2-bit
detection and 1-bit correction)
Error correction code (ECC) and parity through the
ASIC
TABLE 13 Fabric Adapter hardware specifications (continued)
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