Specifications

Table 4: Fabric specifications (Continued)

 

 

 

Item

Description

System processor

200 MHz Motorola® 8245 PowerPc®

 

 

Fabric latency (intra-switch)

 

2 Gbps to 2 Gbps

< 0.4 µsec

 

 

Bandwidth

 

Point-to-point

2.125 Gbps, Full Duplex

Aggregate (single switch)

16 Gbps, full duplex

 

 

Maintainability

Table 5: Maintainability options

 

 

 

Item

Description

Diagnostics

Power-On Self Test (POST) tests all functional

 

components except SFP transceivers. Port tests

 

include online, internal, and external tests.

 

 

User Interface

LED indicators

 

 

Fabric management

Table 6: Fabric management options and requirements

Item

Description

Management methods

Switch Manager Graphical User Interface

 

Command Line Interface (CLI)

 

Simple Management Network Protocol (SNMP)

 

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

 

 

Maintenance connection

RS-232 connector; null modem F/F DB9 cable

 

 

Ethernet connection

RJ-45 connector; 10/100 BASE-T cable

 

 

Switch agent

Allows a network management station to obtain

 

configuration values, traffic information, and failure

 

data pertaining to the Fibre Channels using SNMP

 

through the Ethernet interface.

 

 

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