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Brocade 5100 Technical Specifications
This document highlights the features and specifications for the Brocade 5100 switches.
System specifications
System component Description
Enclosure Non-port to port side airflow; 1U form factor, power from non-port side
Power inlet C13
Power supplies Dual, hot-swappable redundant power supplies with integrated system cooling fans
Fans Two fans
Cooling Integrated system cooling fans
System architecture Nonblocking shared-memory switch
System processors Power PC 440EPX and 667 MHz CPU
Fibre Channel
System component Description
Fibre Channel ports Switch mode (default): 24-, 32-, and 40-port configurations (8-port increments through
Ports on Demand licenses); universal (E, F, M, EX, FL) ports
Access Gateway default port mapping: 32 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports
ANSI Fibre Channel
protocol
FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface standard)
Modes of operation Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6
FCIP (IP over Fibre
Channel)
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile
Port Status 40 port status LEDs
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