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OverviewRev 1.0

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1.2 Serial Number and Product Version Information

The serial number and GUID for the switch are found on the pull out tab below the CONSOLE

connector. On managed switches only, the MAC for the Management PC is also placed on this

tab.

Figure 4: Pull out tab

1.3 FDR Transmission Rate

Mellanox switch systems support FDR (fourteen data rate), an InfiniBand data rate, where each

lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of 14.0625 Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effec

tive bandwidth of 56.25 Gb/s. The FDR physical layer is an IBTA specified physical layer using

advanced block types, deskew mechanism and framing rules for supporting higher speeds and

increased reliability.

The switches also supports FDR10, a non-standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X

port runs a bit rate of 10.3125 Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth

of 40 Gb/s.

FDR10 supports 20% more bandwidth over QDR using the same QSFP cables/connectors.

Both FDR and FDR10 support Forward Error Correction (FEC), as described in IEEE 802.3ap

chapter 74.

FDR and FDR10 are only guaranteed to work with approved Mellanox Cables.

FDR10 is only guaranteed to work with approved Mellanox ConnectX®-3 adapters.

Mellanox

SX6012

S/N:M T1117X 00014

P/N:MSX6012F‐1BFS

GUID:0002C9 020040D DB0

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