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7 fabric channel interfaces, Table 4-1, Main features of fabric channel interface switches – Artesyn ATCA-F120 Installation and Use (August 2014) User Manual

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Functional Description

ATCA-F120 Installation and Use (6806800D06J)

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Via on-board switches you can control the write-protection status of both flashes. By default,
both user flash devices are write-enabled. For further details refer to

Configuring the Blade

on

page 28

.

4.7

Fabric Channel Interfaces

The fabric channel interfaces on the ATCA-F120 are implemented via the following two switch
devices:

Broadcom BCM56800

Broadcom BCM56502

The following table lists the main features of these two switch devices.

Table 4-1 Main Features of Fabric Channel Interface Switches

Feature

Broadcom BCM56800

Broadcom BCM56502

Switch Ports

Twenty 10GbE/1GbEthernet
ports

Twenty four 1Gb Ethernet ports +
two 10GbEthernet ports

Architecture

StrataXGS

StrataXGS

Switching capacity

200 Gbps at line rate

196 Gbps at line rate

Service classes

Support for eight classes of
service (CoS) per port

Support for eight classes of Service
(CoS) plus two additional classes for
Flow Control and system
management per port

Scheduling mechanism

Support for deficit round robin,
weighted round robin and strict
priority scheduling

Support for deficit round robin,
weighted round robin and strict
priority scheduling

Cut-Through switching
mode

Supported

Supported

Port trunking and
remote mirroring mode

Supported Supported

Advanced packet flow
control

Support for head of line blocking
prevention and full-duplex flow
control (802.3x)

Support for head of line blocking
prevention and full-duplex flow
control (802.3x)