Brocade Communications Systems Extension Switch 7800 - Manual (Page 14)

2 Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual
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Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch
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• FastWrite over FCIP (not over FC)
• Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP
• XRC acceleration and FICON tape pipelining over FCIP
• FICON CUP
• FCIP QoS
• TCP performance graphing in Web Tools
The Brocade 7800 provides the following hardware features:
• Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services with link
speeds up to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps
• Up to six 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features
with transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port:
• Two fixed copper RJ-45 ports are provided along with six SFP ports (copper or optical).
You can select either the two fixed copper RJ-45 ports or the first two SFP ports (both
designated as ge0 and ge1) for use (but not both). The SFP ports can be used with
either optical or copper SFPs.
• The SFP ports can be configured to use either optical or copper cabling.
• Rack mountable 1U chassis.
• Two PPC440EPx Processors running @ 667 MHz.
• One GoldenEye2 switch ASIC for 1/2/4/8 Gbps FC switching.
• One Cavium CN 5740 running with eight MIPS cores @ 750 MHz for data path processing
• One Blaster FPGA for FC compression, offloads like checksum generation/checks, etc.
• One 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port for management interface.
- This port supports AutoMDI/MDIX.
• One RJ45 terminal port.
• One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave
command and storage for configuration uploads and downloads.
• Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan assembly FRUs.
• Five internal temperature sensors.
Brocade 7800 Features
The following table compares features supported on the base and fully upgraded Brocade
7800. It also shows optionally licensed features.
TABLE 1 Feature comparison - base 7800 and with the Upgrade License
Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade
License
Number of Fibre Channel ports 4 16
Number of GbE ports 2 6
Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault
isolation Yes 1 Yes 1
FCIP Tunnel Yes Yes
Number of FCIP tunnels 2 8