Brocade 48000

CP4, XBR-48000-R0103, 60-0201837-06

Whether you use the Brocade 48000 as a building block for an enterprise fabric or as a standalone director, it delivers the performance, scalability, and availability to increase productivity and reduce the cost of managing your storage networks.
KEY SPECIFICATIONS:
- 4 Gb/sec port speeds
- Up to 384 ports in a single domain
- Up to 1152 ports per rack
- 16, 32, or 48 ports per blade
- Hot-swappable Field-Replaceable Units
DETAILS:
- Systems Architecture
- High Availability
- Management
- Mechanical Specifications
- Environment
- Power
- Mechanical
- Regulatory Compliance
- Warranty

SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
FIBRE CHANNEL PORTS:
- Up to 384 4 Gb/sec Fibre channel ports
- Up to eight Fibre channel blades (16, 32, or 48 ports per blade)
- Up to 1152 ports per 42U rack
- Up to two Brocade FR4-18i blades (16 4 Gb/sec Fibre channel ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports per blade)
- Up to four Brocade FC4-16iP iScSi blades (eight 4 Gb/sec Fibre channel ports and eight Gigabit Ethernet ports per blade)
CONTROL PROCESSOR:
- Redundant (active/standby) control processor modules
SCALABILITY:
- Full fabric architecture of 239 switches maximum
CERTIFIED MAXIMUM:
- Combination of 56 switches, 19 hops;
larger fabrics certified as required;
Consult Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for configuration details
PERFORMANCE:
- 1.063 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex
- 2.125 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex
- 4.25 Gb/sec line speed, full duplex
- Auto-sensing of 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec port speeds
- Optionally programmable to fixed port speed
- Speedmatching between 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec ports
ISL TRUNKING:
- Up to eight 4.25 Gb/sec ports per ISL trunk
- Up to 32 Gb/sec per iSL trunk. Up to two 8-port trunk groups supported on FC4-16 blades, four 8-port trunk groups supported on FC4-32 blades, and eight 8-port trunk groups supported on FC4-48 blades. ISL trunking at 2 Gb/sec for compatibility with Brocade 3000 series switches and Brocade 12000 and 24000 directors.
AGGREGATE BANDWIDTH:
- 3.264 Tb/sec
SWITCH LATENCY:
- <2.1 µsec any port to any port at 2 Gb/sec, cut-through routing
- <3.6 µsec any port to any port at 4 Gb/sec, cut-through routing
MAXIMUM FRAME SIZE:
- 2112-byte payload
FRAME BUFFERS:
- 1000 for FC4-16, Fr4-18i, FC4-16iP
- 2000 for FC4-32, FC4-48
- Dynamically allocated up to 255 per port
CLASSES OF SERVICE:
- Class 2, class 3, class F (inter-switch frames)
PORT TYPES:
- FL_Port (all except on FC4-48 blades), F_Port, E_Port, self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port); port type control for EX_Port, VE_Port and Vex_Port; Gigabit Ethernet for VE_Port and Vex_Port.
DATA TRAFFIC TYPES:
- Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast
MEDIA TYPES:
- Hot-pluggable, industry-standard Small Formfactor Pluggable (SFP), LC connector
- Short-Wavelength Laser (SWL) up to 500 meters (1640 feet)
- Long-Wavelength Laser (LWL) up to 10 km (6.2 mi)
- Extended Long-Wavelength Laser (ELWL) up to 80 km (49.6 mi)
- Distance depends on fiber optic cable and port speed, CWDM SFPs (8 lambdas)
FABRIC SERVICES:
- Simple Name Server
- Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
- Alias Server (multicast)
- Brocade Advanced Zoning,FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) on FC4-16 and FC4-32 blades, Web tools, Fabric Watch, Extended Fabrics, Remote Switch, ISL trunking, and Advanced Performance Monitoring

HIGH AVAILABILITY
CHASSIS POWER:
- Two AC-DC power supply modules, each delivering 1000 W DC, 2N redundancy; with Brocade FR4-18i and FC4-16iP blades, four AC-DC power supply modules are required for full redundancy
COOLING:
- Three blower assembly modules (two operational required)
AVAILABILITY:
- 99.999 percent
- Hot-pluggable redundant power supplies, fans, processors, port blades, and optics
- Online diagnostics;
- Non-disruptive firmware download and activation

MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SUPPORTED:
- Telnet; RADIUS; SNMP (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); Web tools; Fabric Watch; third-party applications utilizing the Brocade SMI Agent
MANAGEMENT ACCESS:
- 10/100 Ethernet (RJ-45), in-band over Fibre Channel (requires fabric); two serial ports (DB-9) per control processor module