Brocade Communications Systems DCX 8510-4 This appendix, General specifications, Description

	Appendix
Specifications	A

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 13 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

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