Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x8100 Series - Manual (Page 7)

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SwitchBlade x8100 Series | System Overview
The CFC960 shown above provides all of the same connectors
and front panel information as the CFC400 shown previously,
plus 4 x 10GbE SFP+ ports. The SFP+ ports can be used for
standard 10GbE connectivity (fiber only) or for stacking two
SwitchBlade x8100 Series chassis together into a single virtual
unit using VCStack Plus. As the stacking connectors are fiber the
two chassis do not need to be collocated, but can be kilometres
apart – perfect for a distributed core environment, or data-
mirroring solution (as shown in Appendix A). The name CFC960 is derived from the fact that these control
cards can provide up to 80Gbps bandwidth per line card slot.
80Gbps x 10 line card slots (SBx8112) = 800Gbps
4 SFP+ front panel ports
= 80Gbps
Inter CFC link = 80Gbps
Total = 960Gbps (CFC960)
SwitchBlade x8112 with dual CFC960 = 1.92Tbps switching fabric.
SwitchBlade x8106 with dual CFC960 = 960Gbps switching fabric.
CFC960 Control Card