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Brocade 6520 Hardware Reference Manual
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Data transmission ranges
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Data transmission ranges
Table 8
provides the data transmission ranges for different transceivers, port speeds, and cable
types.
Up to 7500 km at 2G is supported when using long distance transport system such as DWDM.
Fabric initialization
Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6
FC-IP (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile
Aggregate switch I/O bandwidth
1,536 Gbps end to end full duplex
FC Port-to-port latency
1400 nanoseconds with no Forward Error Correction
Switching capacity
An aggregate switching capacity of
??? million frames per second
(for
Class 2, Class 3, and Class F frames for the 96 port chassis)
TABLE 7
General specifications (Continued)
Specification
Description
TABLE 8
Supported optics, speeds, cables, and distances
Transceiver
type
Form factor
Speed
Multimode media
(62.5 microns)
(OM1)
Multimode media
(50 microns)
(OM2)
Multimode media
(50 microns)
(OM3)
Multimode media
(50 microns)
(OM4)
Single mode media
(9 microns)
SWL
SFP+
2 Gbps
150 m (492 ft.)
300 m (984 ft.)
500 m (1640 ft.)
N/A
N/A
SFP+
4 Gbps
70 m (229 ft.)
150 m (492 ft.)
380 m (1264 ft.)
400 m (1312 ft.)
N/A
SFP+
8 Gbps
21 m (68 ft.)
50 m (164 ft.)
150 m (492 ft.)
150 m (492 ft.)
N/A
SFP+
10 Gbps 33 m (108 ft.)
82 m (269 ft.)
300 m (984 ft.)
550 m (1804 ft.)
N/A
SFP+
16 Gbps 15 m (49 ft.)
35 m (115 ft.)
100 m (328ft.)
125 m (410 ft.)
N/A
LWL
SFP+
4 Gbps
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
30 km (18.6 mi.)
SFP+
8 Gbps
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
10 km (6.2 mi.) or
40 km (24.8 mi.)
SFP+
10 Gbps N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
10 km (6.2 mi.)
SFP+
16 Gbps N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
10 km (6.2 mi.)
ELWL
SFP+
16 Gbps
???
???
25 km (15.5 mi.)
