IBM 2109 - SAN Fibre Channel Switch Model S16, Service Manual

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Appendix A. Specifications
This appendix discusses the 2109 Model S16 Switch specifications, including:
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General specifications
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Fabric management specifications
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Optical port specifications
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Environmental specifications
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Power supply specifications
General specifications
Table 23 shows the switch specifications.
Table 23. Switch specifications
Specifications Description
Fibre-channel protocol American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
fibre-channel standard (FC-PH)
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW 3.2
Internet protocol (IP) over
fibre-channel (FC-IP) Complies with 2.3 of the FCA profile
System architecture Nonblocking shared-memory switch
System processor Superscalar 33-Mhz Intel i960RP
Number of fibre-channel ports 16 ports
Fibre-channel port speed 1.0625 Gbps full duplex
Modes of operation Fibre-channel class-2 service and fibre-channel class-3
connectionless service
Aggregate switch input/output
(I/O) bandwidth 16 Gbps, full duplex
Frame buffers 16 buffers per port at 2112 bytes per frame
Fabric latency <2 microseconds with no contention
Data transmission range Up to 500 m (1625 ft) for short wavelength optical link
Up to 10 kilometers (32 808 ft) for long wavelength
optical link
Chassis types Back-to-front airflow (power supply out front)
Fabric management specifications
Table 24 shows the fabric management specifications:
Table 24. Fabric management specifications
Standard features Description
Fabric management Simple name server, alias server, simple network management
protocol (SNMP), Telnet, World Wide Web
User interface RJ-45 front panel connector for 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T
Ethernet
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