Fibre Channel ports |
Switch mode (default): 48-, 72-, and 96-port configurations (24-port increments through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); (E, F, M, D, EX) ports |
Scalability |
Full fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches |
Certified maximum |
6000 active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS fabrics; larger fabrics certified as required |
Perbance |
Auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds; 10 Gbps and optionally programmable to fixed port speed |
ISL trunking |
Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 16 Gbps ports per ISL trunk; up to 128 Gbps per ISL trunk. Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS. |
Aggregate bandb |
1536 Gbps end-to-end full duplex |