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McDATA Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch Installation and Service Manual

General Information

• Expansion ports (E_Ports) to provide interswitch link (ISL)

connectivity to fabric directors and switches.

• Fabric loop ports (FL_Ports) to provide connectivity and fabric

attachment for Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) devices.

The switch is installed on a table or desktop, mounted in an FC-512

Fabricenter

equipment cabinet, or mounted in any standard 19-inch

equipment rack.

Operators with a browser-capable PC and Internet connectivity can

manage the switch through a firmware-resident Enterprise Fabric

Connectivity Manager (EFCM) Basic Edition interface. The interface

manages only a single switch, and provides a graphical user interface

(GUI) that supports configuration, statistics monitoring, operation,

and maintenance. The interface is opened from a web browser

running Netscape Navigator

4.6 (or higher) or Microsoft

Internet

Explorer 4.0 (or higher).

Field-Replaceable

Units

The switch provides a modular design that enables quick removal

and replacement of FRUs, including small form factor pluggable

(SFP) optical transceivers and power supply assemblies. Figure 1-1

illustrates the front of the switch and shows the:

1. Ethernet LAN connector.

2. Initial machine load and reset (IML/RESET) button.

3. Green power (PWR) light-emitting diode (LED).

4. Amber system error (ERR) LED.

5. SFP optical transceivers (12).

Figure 1-1 Sphereon 4300 Switch (Front View)