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System component Description
Extension Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight
compression (IBM LZO) BB credit recovery; Extension trunking, FICON Extension, IP
Extension, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), data compression, Fast Write, read/write
Tape Pipelining, QoS.
FICON FICON cascading; support for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for
FICON (IBM z/OS Global Mirror and read/write Tape Pipelining). FICON
connectivity is not supported on the FC32-64 blade.
Inter-chassis link (ICL) Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the core routing (CR) blade.
Fibre Channel
System component Description
Fibre Channel ports SAN256B-6 Director: Up to 256 32-Gbps ports, universal FC (E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port,
M_Port, D_Port, FICON) and Ethernet.
SAN512B-6 Director: Up to 512 32-Gbps ports, universal FC (E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port,
M_Port, D_Port, FICON) and Ethernet.
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames).
ANSI Fibre Channel
protocol FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard).
Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW 5.0.
IP Extension (IP over Fibre
Channel) Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile.
Port to port latency Local switching: 900 ns (including FEC) any port to any port.
Blade to blade: 2.7 microseconds (including FEC) E_Port to E_Port.
Switching capacity An aggregate switching capacity of 13.5 billion frames per second (for Class 2, Class
3, and Class F frames for a 384- or 512-port chassis).
LEDs
System component Description
Port status Bicolor (green and amber) Fibre Channel port status LED on port blades displaying
nine different LED states based on FC port activity and status.
Bicolor (green and amber) QSFP ICL port LED on core routing blades displaying four
different states based on the activity and status of all four lanes.
Bicolor (green and amber) Fibre Channel port status on extension blades displaying
eight different LED states based on port activity and status.
Bicolor (green and amber) Ethernet port status on extension blades displaying four
different LED states based on port activity and status.
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