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Appendix B. Application blades
This appendix contains specification information about optional application and
encryption blades.
FS8-18 blade
The FS8-18 encryption blade is a high performance 16 port auto-sensing blade with
data cryptographic (encryption/decryption) and data compression capabilities. It is
designed for enterprises to secure their data against theft or unauthorized use and
to compress tape data for maximum utilization of tape media. The encryption
blade is a network-based solution that secures data-at-rest for heterogeneous tape
drives, disk array LUNs, and virtual tape libraries.
The FS8-18 blade provides the following major features:
v
16 auto-sensing F, FL, E, EX, and M ports at 8 Gbps FC ports
v
16 SFP media interfaces
v Encryption engines
v
Key management/generation
v
Key management with these hardware interfaces:
– Two 1000Base copper type media interfaces
– One smart card interface
v
Security supervisor tamper detection and response capability
v
CC (Common Criteria) EAL-3 compliance
FX8-24 blade
The FX8-24 blade has 12 external Fibre Channel (FC) SFP ports supporting the
Fibre Channel Routing Services and 10 external 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1-GbE or GE)
SFP ports supporting the Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) feature. There are also 2
licensable external 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE or 10GE) SFP ports supporting
FCIP. It operates with the Fabric Operating System and can communicate with
another FX8-24 or a SAN06B-R for both Fibre Channel Routing Services and FCIP.
The GbE ports on the FX8-24 are not compatible with the GbE ports on the FR4-18i
blade or the SAN04B–R switch.
Note: The port diagram on the front panel of the blade uses the abbreviations GE
for 1-GbE and 10GE for 10-GbE ports.
Attention: The 10-GbE SFPs used in the FX8-24 blade and the 10-Gbps FC SFP+s
used in the FC16-32 and FC16-48 blades are NOT interchangeable.
The FX8-24 operates in one of three modes: 1) ten 1-GbE ports, 2) ten 1-GbE ports
and one 10-GbE port, or 3) two 10-GbE ports, depending on licensing and
subsequent configuration of GbE port mode. If the blade is operating in 10-GbE
mode, then the other end of the circuit must also be an FX8-24 operating in either
10-GbE mode or dual mode with the corresponding VE_ports in 10-GbE mode. All
GbE ports on the blade can be configured to work with either copper or optical
SFPs.
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