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Brocade SilkWorm 4100 Hardware Reference Manual A-5

Publication Number: 53-0000563-02

General Specifications

Table A-4 lists the general specifications for the SilkWorm 4100.

Table A-4 General Specifications

Specification Description

Configurable port types F_Port, FL_Port, and E_Port

EMC (electromagnetic

compatibility)

Emissions

An operating SilkWorm 4100 conforms to the emissions

requirements specified by the following regulations:

• FCC Rules & Regulations, Part 15 subpart B, Class A

• CSA C108.8 Class A

• VCCI Class A ITE

• CISPR 22 Class A

• EN55022 Class A

• AS/NZF 3548: 1995 Class A

• Korean EMC Requirements

• BSMI Standard CNS 13438

• EMC Directive 89/336/EEC

• EN5022 Level A

• EN50082-2/EN55024: 1998

• CNS13438 Class A

• ICES-003 Class A

Immunity

• IEC 61000-4-2 Severity Level 3 for Electrostatic

Discharge

• IEC 61000-4-3 Severity Level 3 for Radiated Fields

• IEC 61000-4-4 Severity Level 3 for Fast Transients

• IEC 61000-4-5 Severity Level 3 for Surge Voltage

• IEC 61000-4-6 Conducted Emissions

• IEC 61000-4-11 Voltage Variations

• EN 61000-4-12 Oscillatory Waves Immunity

• EN 61000-3-2 Limits for Harmonic Current Emissions

• EN 61000-3-3 JEIDA

System architecture Nonblocking shared-memory switch

System processor PowerPC 440GP, 400 MHz CPU

ANSI Fibre Channel protocol FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface

standard)

Modes of operation Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3

Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6

FC-IP (IP over Fibre Channel) Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile

Aggregate switch I/O bandwidth 256 Gbit/sec if all 32 ports are running at 4 Gbit/sec, full duplex

Port-to-port latency Less than 2 microseconds with no contention (destination port

is free)