SANbox 5602, 8 x 4Gbit - SB5602-08A

Scalability
Ports per chassis
# 8 4-Gbps ports (upgradeable in 4-port increments)
# Four 10-Gbps XPAK MSA-compliant ports

Multi-switch fabric support
# All topologies including: stack, cascade, cascaded loop, and mesh
# Multiple 10Gb or 4Gb links between switches
# Adaptive trunking, intelligent path selection

Port types

All ports are universal, auto-discovering, selfconfiguring, and assume the following states: F_Port, FL_port, E_port, G_Port, GL_Port

Performance Features

Fabric Port Speed
# 4-Gbps, 10-Gbps full-duplex. 4Gb ports autonegotiate with slower devices.
# Fabric latency less than 0.4 ?s
# Cut-through routing

Fabric Point-to-Point Bandwidth
# 850 MBps full-duplex on 4-Gbps ports
# 2550 MBps full-duplex on 10-Gbps ports

Aggregate Bandwidth
# 238-Gbps per chassis, end-to-end
# Non-blocking architecture

Maximum Frame Sizes
2148 bytes (2112 byte payload)

Per-port Buffering
# ASIC-embedded memory (non-shared)
# Guaranteed 16 credit zero wait state buffer for full performance up to 13km @ 2-Gbps and 2km @ 10-Gbps
# Extended distance via credit donation
Media
# Hot-pluggable, industry-standard 3.3 volt

Small Form Pluggable (SFP) for 4-Gbps ports
# Hot-pluggable, industry-standard XPAK optics or copper stacking cables for 10-Gbps ports

Supported SFP types
Shortwave/longwave (optical), active copper
Media transmission ranges (2-Gbps)
# Shortwave optical: 500 m (1,640 ft.)
# Longwave optical: 10 km (6.2 mi.)
Cable types
# 50/62.5 micron multimode fiber optic
# 9 micron single-mode fiber optic
Interoperability
# Compatible with FC-SW-2 compliant switches including Brocade®, Cisco®, and McData®
# Management interoperability with leading SAN management applications