Brocade FastIron SX Series Chassis Hardware Installation Guide - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface.....................................................................................................................................5
Document conventions......................................................................................5
Brocade Resources...........................................................................................7
Getting technical help........................................................................................7
Document feedback.......................................................................................... 8
About This Document................................................................................................................ 9
Introduction....................................................................................................... 9
Supported Software.............................................................................. 9
What’s new in this document ........................................................................... 9
Overview.................................................................................................................................11
Hardware benefits........................................................................................... 11
PoE port density..............................................................................................11
PoE+ port density............................................................................................12
Supported configurations................................................................................ 13
Software features....................................................................................................................15
PoE and PoE+ applications..................................................................................................... 17
Hardware features...................................................................................................................19
FSX 800 chassis............................................................................................. 19
FSX 1600 chassis........................................................................................... 21
Specifying a port address................................................................................24
Specifying a data port......................................................................... 24
Specifying a management port........................................................... 24
Management modules.....................................................................................24
FSX 800 and FSX 1600 management modules..................................24
Switch fabric modules ........................................................................ 27
Interface modules................................................................................28
Network interfaces.............................................................................. 38
Port regions.........................................................................................39
Power supplies....................................................................................39
Cooling system....................................................................................46
Built-in mounting brackets...................................................................47
Layer 3 routing protocol table sizes..........................................................................................49
Installing FastIron SX Devices..................................................................................................51
Unpacking the system.....................................................................................51
Installation precautions................................................................................... 52
General precautions............................................................................52
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