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Brocade VDX 8770-8 hardware components
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Support for SR and LR 1 Gbps SFP transceivers.
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Support for SR and LR 10 Gbps SFP+ transceivers.
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Support for 40 Gbps QSFP transceivers.
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Support for active twinax cable at 1, 3, and 5 meters for 10 GbE ports.
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NEBS-compliant chassis (certification in process).
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Support for in-band management.
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15U form factor for chassis.
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Support for trunking through the 48x10G line card module. Maximum of eight ports per trunk.
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Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) through the 48x10G module.
Brocade VDX 8770-8 hardware components
The Brocade VDX 8770-8 features a modular and scalable mechanical construction that allows a
wide range of flexibility in installation, fabric design, and maintenance. The chassis can be
mounted with the cables facing the front of the equipment rack and consists of the following:
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Eight slots for hot-swappable line cards that can be configured in a single chassis, delivering
up to 384 10 Gbps Ethernet ports or 48 40 Gbps Ethernet ports.
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Two slots for management modules.
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A single active management module can control all ports in the chassis.
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The standby management module assumes control of the Brocade VDX 8770-8 if the
active management module fails.
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six slots for switch fabric modules.
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Interconnects all line cards.
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Modular, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs):
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48x10GbE line card
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48x1GbE line card
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12x40GbE line card
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Four fan assemblies.
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Up to eight 3000W power supplies (200-240 VAC auto-sensing or -48 VDC).
Each power supply connection should be separately fused.
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The 48x10G line cards support 10 GbE SFP+ and 1 GbE SFP optical transceivers as well
as 1 GbE copper SFPs. They also support direct-attach 10 GbE copper twin-ax cables at 1,
3, or 5 meters.
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The 12x40G line card support 40 GbE QSFP optical transceivers.
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Cable management comb.