Brocade DCX 8510-4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual 109
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Appendix
A

Specifications

In this appendix
•General specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
•System architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
•System size and weight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
•System blade and FRU weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
•Facility requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
•Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
•Fibre Channel port specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
•Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
•Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
•Data transmission ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
•Qualified cables for the FC8-64 port blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
•Safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
•Regulatory compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
•Environmental regulation compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

General specifications

The Brocade DCX 8510-4 is compliant with United States and International safety and
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standards. Table 1 3 lists the general specifications for the
Brocade DCX 8510-4.
TABLE 13 General specifications
Specification Description
Configurable port types F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, M_Port, D_Port
System architecture Nonblocking shared memory
System processor FreeScale 8548, 1.2 GHz
ANSI Fibre Channel protocol FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW 5.0
FC-IP (IP over Fibre Channel) Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile