SANbox 1400 2Gb (0 SFPs) - SB1403-10AS

Scalability

Fibre Channel Ports

# Physical & Signaling Interface Rev. 4.3 (FC-PH)
# Physical & Signaling Interface-2 (FC-PH-2)
# Physical & Signaling Interface-3 (FC-PH-3)
# Fabric Generic Requirements (FC-FG)
# Generic Services (FC-GS)
# Generic Services-2 (FC-GS-2)
# Generic Services-3 (FC-GS-3)
# Switch Fabric (FC-SW-2)
# Arbitrated Loop Rev. 4.6 (FC-AL)
# Arbitrated Loop-2 Rev. 7(FC-AL-2)
# Fibre Loop Attachment (FC-FLA)
# Tape Technical Report (FC-Tape)
# Virtual Interface Architecture Mapping (FC-VI)
# Element MIB Specification
# Fibre Alliance MIB Specification
Fibre Channel Classes of Service
Classes 2, 3 connectionless
Modes of Operation
# Fabric
# Public Loop

Performance Features
Fabric Port Speed

4Gb/s, full-duplex, auto-negotiating for compatibility with existing 1Gb and 2Gb devices

Fabric Latency
# Less than 0.4 ?s (best case, no contention)
# Cut-through routing

Fabric Point-to-Point Bandwidth

848 MB/s Full Duplex per port
Fabric Aggregate Bandwidth
# Single chassis: Over 80 Gb/s (full duplex) end-to-end
# Non-blocking architecture

Maximum Frame Sizes
2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)

Per-port Buffering
# ASIC-embedded memory (non-shared)
# Each port has a guaranteed 8-credit zero wait state buffer for full performance up to 10km

Scalability

Ports Per Chassis
(10) 4Gb / 2Gb / 1Gb ports