‐ 10 Gbps performance is enabled by 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers.
‐ Ports can be configured for 10 Gbps for metro connectivity (on the first eight ports only).
• Universal ports self-configure as E, F, M, or D ports. EX_Ports can be activated on a per port basis
with the optional Integrated Routing license.
‐ Brocade Diagnostic Port (D-Port) feature provides physical media diagnostic,
troubleshooting and verification services.
• In-flight data compression and encryption on up to two ports provides efficient link utilization and
security.
• Options for port side exhaust (default) or nonport side exhaust airflow for cooling.
• Virtual Fabric support to improve isolation between different VFs.
• Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) service, available with the optional Integrated Routing license
provides improved scalability and fault isolation.
• FICON, FICON Cascading, and FICON Control Unit Port ready.
• Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking (licensable), which allows up to eight ports (at 2, 4, 8, or 16 Gbps
speeds) between a pair of switches combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128
Gbps (256 Gbps full duplex) for optimal bandwidth utilization and load balancing.
• Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), which optimizes fabric-wide performance and load balancing by
automatically routing data to the most efficient available path in the fabric.
• Brocade-branded SFP+ optical transceivers that support any combination of Short Wavelength
(SWL) and Long Wavelength (LWL) or Extended Long Wavelength (ELWL) optical media among
the switch ports.
• Extended distance support enables native Fibre Channel extension up to 7,500 km at 2 Gbps.
• Support for unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast data traffic types.
• Brocade Fabric OS, which delivers distributed intelligence throughout the network and enables a
wide range of value-added applications including Brocade Advanced Web Tools and Brocade
Zoning. Optional Fabric Services include: Adaptive Networking with QoS, Brocade Extended
Fabrics, Brocade Enhanced Group Management, Brocade Fabric Watch, ISL Trunking, and End-to-
End Performance Monitoring (APM).
• Support for Access Gateway configuration where server ports connected to the fabric core will be
virtualized.
• Hardware zoning is accomplished at the port level of the switch and by World Wide Name (WWN).
Hardware zoning permits or denies delivery of frames to any destination port address.
• Extensive diagnostics and system-monitoring capabilities for enhanced high Reliability, Availability,
and Serviceability (RAS).
• 10G Fibre Channel integration on the same port provides for DWDM metro connectivity on the
same switch (can be done on first eight ports only).
• The Brocade EZSwitchSetup wizard that makes SAN configuration a three-step point-and-click
task.
• Real time power monitoring enables users to monitor real time power usage of the fabric at a switch
level.
• Port-to-port latency minimized to 800 nanoseconds through the use of cut-through frame routing at
16 Gbps.
Platform components
• A system motherboard that features a PowerPC 440EPx Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)
CPU running at 667 MHz, with integrated peripherals, and that provides high performance with low
power consumption.
• An RJ45 10/100 Bast T Ethernet system management port, in conjunction with EZSwitchSetup, that
supports switch IP address discovery and configuration, eliminating the need to attach a serial cable
to configure the switch IP address and greatly increasing the ease of use.
Platform components
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