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McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual
General Information
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Expansion ports (E_Ports) to provide interswitch link (ISL)
connectivity to fabric directors and switches.
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Fabric loop ports (FL_Ports) to provide connectivity and fabric
attachment for Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) devices.
The switch is installed on a table or desktop, mounted in an FC-512
Fabricenter
®
equipment cabinet, or mounted in any standard 19-inch
equipment rack.
Operators with a browser-capable PC and Internet connectivity can
manage the switch through a firmware-resident Enterprise Fabric
Connectivity Manager (EFCM) Basic Edition interface. The interface
manages only a single switch, and provides a graphical user interface
(GUI) that supports configuration, statistics monitoring, operation,
and maintenance. The interface is opened from a web browser
running Netscape Navigator
®
4.6 (or higher) or Microsoft
®
Internet
Explorer 4.0 (or higher).
Field-Replaceable
Units
The switch provides a modular design that enables quick removal
and replacement of FRUs, including small form factor pluggable
(SFP) optical transceivers and power supply assemblies.
illustrates the front of the switch and shows the:
1. Ethernet LAN connector.
2. Initial machine load and reset (IML/RESET) button.
3. Green power (PWR) light-emitting diode (LED).
4. Amber system error (ERR) LED.
5. SFP optical transceivers (12).
Figure 1-1
Sphereon 4300 Switch (Front View)