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Adaptive Rate Limiting
Configurable minimum and maximum committed bandwidth per FCIP tunnel
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Minimum rate is guaranteed rate
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FC Frame Compression before FCIP Encapsulation
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FCR
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SOTCP with reorder resistance
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FastWrite over FCIP (not over FC)
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Open Systems Tape Pipelining over FCIP
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FCIP QoS
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TCP Performance Graphing in Web Tools
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FICON and FICON Cascading ready.
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FICON CUP (requires an optional license).
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FICON Accelerator for IBM TotalStorage z/OS Global Mirror (aka, XRC) and FICON Tape
(requires an optional license).
The 1606 Extension SAN Switch has the following hardware features:
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Up to 16 Fibre Channel SFP ports supporting Fibre Channel Switching or Fibre Channel
Routing Services, with link speeds of 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-Gb/s
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Up to 6 1-GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features, with
transmit link speeds of up to 1-Gb/s on each port
Two ports (ge0 and ge1) can be configured for use with either copper or optical cables
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Rack–mountable 1U chassis
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Two PowerPC 440EPx processors running at 667 MHz
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One GoldenEye2 switch ASIC for 1, 2, 4, or 8 Gb/s FC switching
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One Cavium CN5740 running with 8 MIPS cores at 750 MHz for data path processing
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One Blaster FPGA for FC compression, offloads such as chksum generation/checks
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One 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port for the management interface
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One RJ-45 terminal port
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One USB port for storing firmware updates,
supportSave
command output, and
configuration uploads and downloads
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Two redundant, hot-swappable combined power supply/fan assembly FRUs
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Five internal temperature sensors
Feature comparison of base and upgraded products
compares the features supported on the base and fully upgraded 1606
Extension SAN Switch. It also lists the optionally licensed features.
Table 1 Comparison of 1606 Extension SAN Switch features
With upgrade license
Base product
Feature
16
4
Number of Fibre Channel ports
6
2
Number of GbE ports
1606 Extension SAN Switch features
17