Product Features

The Brocade 7800 Extension Switch and FX8-24 Extension Blade combine Fibre Channel (FC) switching and routing capabilities with hardware-assisted Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP), allowing the extension of FC fabrics over longer distances than those allowed by standard FC links.

Both products share the following configuration features:

■FCIP Trunking — multiple source/destination address pairs are combined over multiple Ethernet interfaces to achieve higher bandwidth and failover resiliency.

■Adaptive Rate Limiting — guarantees minimum bandwidth for FCIP tunnels.

Additional features are detailed by product:

■“Brocade 7800 Extension Switch” on page 2

■“Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade” on page 3

Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

The Brocade 7800 Extension Switch is a self-contained, one rack unit (1U) switch with the following features:

■16 FC ports, auto sensing to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbit/sec (depending on the small form- factor pluggables (SFPs) installed).

■Six 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports (for FCIP links), split as follows:

■Two ports configurable for copper (via built-in RJ45) or optical (via SFPs).

■Four ports with support for SFPs only, optical or copper.

■Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan modules.

Note – Four FC ports and two 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports are enabled by default. The remaining ports can be enabled with the purchase of an Upgrade Bundle license, allowing activation of all 16 FC ports and all six 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

2 Brocade 7800 Extension Switch and FX8-24 Extension Blade Hardware Release Notes • November 2009