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• Two slots for core routing (CR) blades:
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CR blade interconnects all port blades.
– Up to 16 4x32-Gbps QSFP (ICL) ports.
– ICL ports allow interconnection with neighboring Director chassis
– Both CR blades are active and can be hot-swapped.
• Up to four slots for modular, hot-swappable 34-port SX6 extension blades. Blades provide 16 32– Gbps Fibre Channel (FC)
ports supporting 8, 16, and 32 Gbps or 16 16-Gbps FC ports supporting 4, 8, and 16 Gbps; 16 GbE ports supporting 1 or
10 Gbps; and 2 GbE ports supporting 40 Gbps. Extension blades enable long-distance communication over an existing IP
infrastructure.
• Modular, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs):
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Two fan assemblies, available with nonport-side intake (NPI) or nonport-side exhaust (NPE) airflow.
– Up to two power supply assemblies, available with nonport-side intake (NPI) or nonport-side exhaust (NPE) airflow.
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Refer to the "Power supply specifications (per PSU)" in the Brocade X6 Directors Technical Specifications on page
225 for maximum output power, input voltage, input line frequency, and other specifications for your power supply
model.
› Refer to the "Power supply requirements" section in the Brocade X6 Directors Technical Specifications on page 225
for the minimum number of power supplies required for operation and redundancy when different input voltages are
used, such as low line and high line AC.
› Refer to "Power Consumption" sections in the Brocade X6 Directors Technical Specifications on page 225 for power
output data and minimum number of power supplies for supported input voltages.
› Redundant primary power connections ensure high availability. Each power supply assembly has its own connector, so
the number of primary power connections is two for optimum efficiency and redundancy.
– Two World Wide Name (WWN) cards located on the nonport side of the device behind the WWN card bezel.
– Blades use small form-factor pluggable (SFP+ and QSFP+) optical transceivers.
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The 10-Gbps speed must be manually set and requires special 10-Gbps FC SFP+ transceivers.
› The 32-Gbps SFP+ transceivers support speeds of 8, 16, and 32 Gbps.
› The 16-Gbps SFP+ transceivers support speeds of 4, 8, and 16 Gbps.
› The 4x32-Gbps QSFP+ transceivers on the core routing blades provide four 32–Gbps inter-chassis links (ICL)
clustered in a single quad connector and cable.
› The 4x16-Gbps QSFP+ transceivers on the core routing blades provide four 16–Gbps inter-chassis links (ICL)
clustered in a single quad connector and cable).
• Chassis door. This door must be installed to meet EMI compliance certification.
• Two vertical cable management finger assemblies. These install on the equipment rack for cable management.
NOTE
Device control processors and management modules contain batteries for RTC/NVRAM backup. Do not attempt to replace
these batteries. Dispose of hardware components containing these batteries as required by local ordinances and regulations.
Port-side view of device
The following illustration shows the port-side view of the Brocade X6-4 Director with installed blades identified. Note that an SX6
extension blades are not shown in the following illustration, but would install in the same slots as the FC32-48 port blades. A maximum
of four SX6 blades are supported.
Port-side view of device
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