DescriptionSpecification
A minimum aggregate routing capacity of four million frames per
second (for Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames in a 64-port
switch)
Routing capacity
System architecture
Table 42 DC SAN Director system architecture
Up to 384 ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, FL_port, Ex_port, and M_port)Fibre Channel Ports
Redundant (active/standby) control processor modulesControl Processor
Full fabric architecture: 239 switches maximumScalability
1.063 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
2.125 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
4.25 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
8.50 Gb/s line speed, full duplex
10.51875 Gb/s line speed, full duplex (with FC10-6 blade)
Autosensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds optionally programmable to fixed
port speed, speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s port speeds
Performance
Can use up to 8 ports in a trunk group to form a 64 Gb/s trunkISL Trunking
6144 Gb/s, end-to-end, when using eight FC4-48 port bladesAggregate bandwidth
FC8-16 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-32 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FC8-48 blade:
<2.1 µsec any port to any port at 8 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
For the FR4-18i blade:
<3.6 µsec any port to any port at 4 Gb/s, cut-through routing.
Switch latency
2112-byte payloadMaximum frame size
2048 per ASIC, dynamically allocatedFrame buffers
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)Classes of service
Technical specifications210
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