Brocade Communications Systems SBCEBFCSW Fibre Channel switch-module standards and protocols

Table 1. Fibre Channel switch-module specifications .

Fibre Channel switch-module standards and protocols:

Fibre Channel standards:

•FC-AL ANSI X3.272:

•FC-AL-2 NCIT S 332:

•FC-FLA NCIT S TR-20:

•FC-GS-3 NCITS 348-2000 Rev 7.01

•FC-FG ANSI X3.289:

•FC-FS Rev 1.7

•FC-PH ANSI X3.230:

•FC-PH-2 ANSI X3.297:

•FC-PH-3 ANSI X3.303:

•FC-PLDA NCIT S TR-19:

•FC-SW-2 Rev 5.3

•FC-VI Rev 1.61

•IPFC RFC 2625

•SANmark compliance SCD-3001 v2a1...

•FC-MI, Rev 1.92

•FC-SB-3 ANSI/INCITS 374:2003

•FC-BB-2 Rev 5.3

Fibre Channel switch-module standards and protocols (continued):

Fibre Channel protocols:

•Fibre Channel service classes: Class 2 and class 3.

•Operation modes: Fibre Channel class 2 and class 3, connectionless.

•External port type:

—F_port.

—FL_port.

—E_port.

—Self-discovery based on switch type U_port, an optional port type.

•Internal port type: 2 Gbps is the default setting.

•Port characteristics: External ports are automatically detected and self-configuring.

•Number of Fibre Channel ports: Two external ports and 14 internal ports.

•Scalability: 239 switches maximum depending on your configuration.

Fibre Channel switch-module standards and protocols (continued):

Fibre Channel protocols (continued):

•Buffer credits: 16 buffer credits per port

•Media type: Small form- factor pluggable (SFP) module

•Fabric port speed: 1.0625 or 2.125 Gbps (gigabits per second)

•Maximum frame size: 2148 bytes (2112-byte payload)

•System processor: PPC405GP

•Fabric latency: Less than 2.1 ∝sec from any port to any port at 2 Gbps, cut- through routing

•Fabric point-to-point bandwidth: 2 Gbps or 4 Gbps at full duplex

•Fabric aggregate bandwidth: 64 Gbps if all 16 ports are running 2 Gbps at full duplex

•Nonblocking architecture shared-memory switch to prevent latency

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