• Fabrics connected through FCIP merge if the ports are configured as VE_Ports, and do not
merge if one end of the connection is configured as a VEx_Port. If VE_Ports are used in a Fibre
Channel Routing Services backbone fabric configuration, then the backbone fabric merges
but the EX_Ports attached to edge fabrics do not merge. For more information, see the
Fabric
OS Administrator’s Guide
.
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FCIP Trunking with load balancing and network-based failure recovery
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Adaptive Rate Limiting
• Configurable minimum and maximum committed bandwidth per FCIP tunnel
• 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).
•
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
•
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
•
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
•
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
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