Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Rear panel Flexible Ports on Demand, PoD licenses

Ports on Demand Licensing 4

FIGURE 7 Brocade ICX 6650 front panel

Base (32x10 GbE) 8x10 GbE 8x10 GbE 8x10 GbE

Blocks of 8 1/10 GbE SFP+ ports

Sequential only

33-40, 41-48, 49-56

Rear panel Flexible Ports on Demand

The rear panel has 6 QSFP+ ports:

•2 pairs of 40 ports that are error-disabled by default. For a detailed description of the port states (up, down, or error-disabled), refer to “Configuration considerations when configuring PoD for Brocade ICX 6650 devices” on page 96.

•2 ports that can be converted to eight ports using a breakout cable. The ports are error- disabled by default. For a detailed description of the port states (up, down, or error-disabled), refer to “Configuration considerations when configuring PoD for Brocade ICX 6650 devices” on page 96.

The ports are on the rear panel are categorized into groups. Each group requires a Flexible PoD (FPoD) license to enable the ports. For more information about using the FPoD license with a group of ports, refer to “Disabling the FPoD ports on the rear panel” on page 89.

•Group 1 = Ports 1/2/1 - 1/2/2. When enabled, these ports operate at 40 GbE.

•Group 2 = Ports 1/2/3 - 1/2/4. When enabled, these ports operate at 40 GbE.

•Group 3 = Ports 1/3/1-4, 1/3/5-8. When enabled, these breakout ports operate at 10 GbE. Refer to Figure 8 for an illustration of the rear panel ports.

FIGURE 8 Brocade ICX 6650 rear panel

Specific pairs of QSFP+ ports

2x40 GbE (2/1-2 or 2/3-4)

2/1-2		2/3
2/4	3/1-8

4x10 GbE breakout ports

(3/1-4, 3/5-8)

PoD licenses

Table 17 lists the PoD license SKUs for the Brocade ICX 6650, the license names, and the function of each license.

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