System component
Description
Extension
Supports DWDM, CWDM, and FC-SONET devices; Fibre Channel, in-flight
compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256) BB credit recovery;
FCIP, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), data compression, Fast Write, read/write Tape
Pipelining, QoS
FICON
FICON cascading (Brocade Fabric OS: Brocade DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4); support
for lossless DLS; FICON CUP; Advanced Accelerator for FICON (FICON Global
Mirror and XRC emulation and read/write Tape Pipelining)
The Brocade FC8-64 blade does not support FICON.
Inter-chassis link (ICL)
Chassis-to-chassis linkage through connectors on the core switch blade (CR16-4)
Fibre Channel
System component
Description
Fibre Channel ports
Brocade DCX 8510-4: Up to 256 16-Gbps ports, universal (F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port,
M_Port, D_Port)
Brocade DCX 8510-8: Up to 512 16-Gbps ports, universal (E_Port, F_Port, EX_Port,
M_Port, D_Port, FICON)
Classes of service
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (interswitch frames)
ANSI Fibre Channel
protocol
FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)
Modes of operation
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
Fabric initialization
Complies with FC-SW 5.0
FCIP (IP over Fibre
Channel)
Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of the FCA profile
Port to port latency
Local switching - 700 ns (any port to any port); Blade to blade - 2.1 microseconds
(E_Port to E_Port)
Switching capacity
An aggregate switching capacity of 3.36 billion frames per second (for Class 2, Class
3, and Class F frames for a 256-port chassis)
LEDs
System component
Description
Switch status and
management
Unicolor LED (amber) displaying four different LED states based on blade activity
and status
Brocade DCX 8510 Technical Specifications
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Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual
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