Fibre Channel Ports | 128 ports (96 64G SFP+ ports, plus 16 2x64G SFP-DD ports), each supporting E_Ports, F_Ports, M_Ports, D_Ports, and EX_Ports. 48-port base configuration; additional ports are enabled with two 24-port SFP+ PODs (Ports on Demand), plus a 32-port SFP-DD POD (16 2x64G SFP-DD transceivers), scaling the switch from 48 ports to 128 ports. The SFP+ ports are capable of auto-negotiating to 8, 16, 32, or 64G speeds depending on the SFP+ model and the minimum supported speed of the optical transceiver at the other end of the link. |
Scalability | 24x SFP+ physical ports. The number of ports that are activated is model dependent and can be upgraded with additional licenses |
Certified maximum | 4K active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics |
Performance | Non-blocking architecture with wire-speed forwarding of traffic: * 8GFC: 8.5 Gb/s line speed, full duplex * 10GFC: 10.53 Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10Gb/s optionally programmable to fixed port speed. * 16GFC: 14.025 Gb/s line speed, full duplex * 32GFC: 28.05 Gb/s line speed, full duplex * 64GFC: 57.8 Gb/s line speed, full duplex |