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2 Brocade 7800 Extension Switch Hardware Reference Manual

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Introducing the Brocade 7800 Extension Switch

• FastWrite over FCIP (not over FC)

• Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP

• XRC acceleration and FICON tape pipelining over FCIP

• FICON CUP

• FCIP QoS

• TCP performance graphing in Web Tools

The Brocade 7800 provides the following hardware features:

• Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Routing Services with link

speeds up to 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gbps

• Up to six 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features

with transmit link speeds up to 1-Gbps on each port:

• Two fixed copper RJ-45 ports are provided along with six SFP ports (copper or optical).

You can select either the two fixed copper RJ-45 ports or the first two SFP ports (both

designated as ge0 and ge1) for use (but not both). The SFP ports can be used with

either optical or copper SFPs.

• The SFP ports can be configured to use either optical or copper cabling.

• Rack mountable 1U chassis.

• Two PPC440EPx Processors running @ 667 MHz.

• One GoldenEye2 switch ASIC for 1/2/4/8 Gbps FC switching.

• One Cavium CN 5740 running with eight MIPS cores @ 750 MHz for data path processing

• One Blaster FPGA for FC compression, offloads like checksum generation/checks, etc.

• One 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port for management interface.

- This port supports AutoMDI/MDIX.

• One RJ45 terminal port.

• One USB port that provides storage for firmware updates, output of the supportSave

command and storage for configuration uploads and downloads.

• Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan assembly FRUs.

• Five internal temperature sensors.

Brocade 7800 Features

The following table compares features supported on the base and fully upgraded Brocade

7800. It also shows optionally licensed features.

TABLE 1 Feature comparison - base 7800 and with the Upgrade License

Feature Base 7800 with Upgrade

License

Number of Fibre Channel ports 4 16

Number of GbE ports 2 6

Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault

isolation

Yes

FCIP Tunnel Yes Yes

Number of FCIP tunnels 2 8