53-1004105-13 Hardware Installation Guide
Brocade X6-8 Director
Hardware Installation Guide
Port and Extension Blades
FC32-48 Port Blade Overview
The FC32-48 port blade contains 48 ports capable of Fibre Channel (FC) speeds up to 32G. Each port blade provides 48
backplane port connections to core routing blades. The port blade supports port-based in-flight encryption/decryption and
compression/decompression.
Port and extension blades can be mixed in device slots 3-6 and 9-12, but CR32-8 blades must be installed in slots 7 and
8. Up to eight hot-swappable port blades can be installed in a single chassis to provide up to 384 32G FC ports.
Optics such as the following can be installed in the blade's FC ports. For a complete list of transceivers, see
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32G SFP+ transceivers supporting 8G, 16G, and 32G speeds.
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16G SFP+ transceivers supporting 4G, 8G, and 16G speeds.
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10G SFP+ transceivers supporting 10G.
Port blades contain the following LED indicators:
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Green blade power LED
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Amber blade status LED
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Bicolor green/amber FC port status LEDs
For details on interpreting LED operation, see
Interpreting FC32-48 Port Blade LEDs
FC32-48 Port Blade Numbering and Trunking
The following figure shows how ports are numbered on the blade.
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