Items Specifications
In-band through the management module
Fabric service Standard Fabric service
Optional
(at additional
charge)
Ports On Demand (POD)
Fabric Watch
ISL Trunking
Hardware options SFP+ (for adding one external port)
USB memory (for updating firmware; backing up and
restoring configuration)
These functions are also available through FTP server
without this option.
Operation management SNMPv1, syslog, telnet, http, ftp
Power supply 12 V
External dimensions (W x D x H: mm) 161 x 252 x 32.3
Mass 1.5 kg (including SFP+)
Table 2-28 Brocade 16 Gb/sec Fibre Channel Switch Module specifications
Items Specifications
FCSW component Brocade 6546
Fibre channel ports Minimum:
12 ports, internal and/or external, assigned as desired.
Maximum:
16 internal ports (Serdes interfaces to the server blades)
8 external ports
Supported line speeds 4.25 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex,
8.5 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex,
14.025 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex
Total bandwidth 673 Gb/sec
24 ports x 14.025 Gb/sec (line speed) x 2 (full duplex)
Fabric latency 700 ns (16 Gb/sec with cut-through routing)
Fibre channel
specification
Supported
standards
Fibre channel specification
Service classes Class 2, class 3, class F
Maximum frame size 2112 byte payload
Data traffic Unicast, multicast, broadcast
Media type 16 Gb SFP+, LC connector, short-wave laser
Maximum distance:
• Multi-mode 62.5 μm cable (OM1)
70 m at 4 Gb/sec; 21 m at 8 Gb/sec; 15 m at 16 Gb/sec
Specification
2-19
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