Product Overview
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Product features
The Brocade device described in this guide is part of the Brocade Next Generation Data Center Networks product line, a highly robust
class of network switching platforms that combines breakthrough performance, scalability, and energy efficiency with long-term
investment. These chassis are designed to address the data growth and application demands of evolving enterprise data centers.
The Brocade device features the Brocade CloudPlex
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architecture, a fabric-based Ethernet technology that can present virtual desktops
over a global network that integrates both static and cloud-based resources.
The Brocade device requires Brocade Network Operating System (Network OS) v3.0.0 or later. For details about Network OS, refer to
the
Network OS Administration Guide
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A key feature of this Brocade device is Brocade VCS
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technology, which includes virtual cluster switching, a set of technologies that
allows users to create flatter, virtualized, and converged data center networks. VCS fabrics are scalable, permitting users to expand at
their own pace, and simplified, allowing users to manage the fabric as a single entity. VCS-based Ethernet fabrics are convergence-
capable with technologies such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for storage.
This Brocade device can also be deployed in IP fabrics. An IP fabric can be described as a collection of discrete Layer 3 elements (such
as switch-routers) arranged in a spine-leaf network. These elements exchange Layer 2 and Layer 3 database information to provide a
flexible, nonblocking and scalable framework while retaining the semantics of a single logical switch. There can be competing protocols
for exchanging this distributed database across such discrete elements. Spine-leaf networks are designed to be a three-stage
architecture, an ingress stage, a middle stage, and an egress stage. The concept is that there are multiple paths for the call to be switched
through the network so that traffic can always connect and not be blocked. For full details and configuration procedures for IP fabrics,
refer to the
Network OS IP Fabrics Configuration Guide
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Key features of the Brocade device include:
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A variety of external port types and speeds in supported line card modules
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Dual, redundant management modules (MMs)
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Up to six switch fabric modules (SFMs)
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Up to eight redundant, hot-swappable power supplies at 220 VAC or -48 VDC
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Up to four hot-swappable fan modules
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Serial (console), Ethernet, and USB connections for management modules
NOTE
USB support is for Brocade-branded USB devices only
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Support for short wavelength (SX) and long wavelength (LX) 1 Gbps SFP transceivers
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Support for ultra short range (USR), short range (SR), 10km long range (LR), extended range (ER), 80km (ZR), and 80km
CWDM (ZR-Cxx) 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers
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