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Switch Operating Features
Hardware Features
The DS-32M2 is an enterprise-class Fibre Channel switch that
provides high performance, high-availability connectivity, and
enterprise-class manageability for an Open Systems environment.
The DS-32M2 provides 32 Fibre Channel G_Ports for attachment to
device N_Ports or switch E_Ports through fiber optic links. The
switches provide full-duplex, bidirectional data transfer at
2.125 Gb/s for all ports.
Performance
Features
The DS-32M2 provides these performance features:
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High bandwidth
— Each port provides full-duplex serial data
transfer at a rate of 2.125 Gb/s.
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High-availability
—The switch’s design provides a redundant
configuration of critical hardware components with automatic
failure detection and notification.
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Low latency
— The latency is less than two microseconds
between transmission of a frame at a source port to receipt of a
frame at the corresponding destination port (with no port
contention).
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Low communication overhead
— Fibre Channel protocol
provides efficient use of transmission bandwidth, reduces
interlocked handshakes across the communication interface, and
efficiently implements low-level error recovery mechanisms. This
results in little communication overhead in the protocol and a
switch Bit Error Rate (BER) better than one bit error per trillion
(10
-12
) bits.
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Local control
— Actions taking place at a device N_Port seldom
affect operation of other ports, therefore servers need to maintain
little or no information about other connected devices in a Storage
Area Network.
Summary of Contents for Connectrix DS-32M2
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