Specifications

General Specifications

Table A-1 shows the switch specifications.

Table A-1

Switch Specifications

 

 

 

Specifications

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fibre Channel protocol

 

ANSI Fibre Channel Standard (FC-PH)

 

 

 

Fabric Initialization

 

Complies with FC-SW 3.2

 

 

IP Over Fibre Channel (FC-IP)

Complies with 2.3 of the FCA profile

 

 

 

System architecture

 

Nonblocking shared-memory switch

 

 

 

System processor

 

Superscalar 33-Mhz Intel i960RP

 

 

Number of Fibre Channel Ports

16 ports

 

 

Fibre Channel port speed

1.0625 Gbps full duplex

 

 

 

Modes of operation

 

Fibre Channel Class-2 service and Fibre Channel Class-3 connectionless

 

 

service

 

 

Aggregate switch I/O bandwidth

16 Gbps, full duplex

 

 

 

Frame buffers

 

16 buffers per port at 2112 bytes per frame

 

 

 

Fabric latency

 

<2 microseconds with no contention

 

 

Data transmission range

up to 500 m (1,625 ft.) for short-wavelength optical link

 

 

Up to 10 kilometers (84,480 ft.) for long-wavelength optical link

 

 

 

Chassis types

 

Back-to-front airflow (power supply out front)

 

 

 

Departmental Switch Model DS-16B Hardware Reference Manual

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