NA-320-0008MC / BROCADE 300 24-PORT (8 ACTIVE) 8GB FIBRE CHANNEL SWITCH

NA-320-0008MC
BROCADE 300 24-PORT 8GB FIBRE CHANNEL 8-PORTS ACTIVE SWITCH

Fibre Channel ports

• Switch mode (default): 8-, 16-, and 24-port configurations (8-port increments through Ports on Demand [PoD] licenses); E_, F_, M_, FL_ Ports
• Brocade Access Gateway Default Port Mapping: 16 F_Ports, 8 N_Ports

Scalability

Full fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum

Certified maximum

• Single Brocade FOS fabric: 56 domains, 19 hops
• Single Brocade M-Enterprise OS (M-EOS) fabric: 31 domains, 3 hops
• Larger fabrics certified as required; consult Brocade or OEM SAN design documents for configuration details

Performance

• 1.063 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps port speeds; optionally programmable to fixed port speed; speed matching between 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gbps ports

ISL Trunking

• Brocade Frame-based Trunking with up to eight 8 Gbps ports per ISL trunk with optional license; up to 64 Gbps per ISL trunk (8 ports × 8 Gbps [data rate])
• Exchange-based load balancing across ISLs with DPS included in Brocade Fabric OS

Aggregate bandwidth

192 Gbps: 24 ports × 8 Gbps (data rate)

Maximum fabric latency

700 ns with no contention, cut-through routing at 8 Gbps

Maximum frame size

2112-byte payload

Port types

• FL_Port, F_Port, M_Port (Mirror Port), and E_Port; optional port type control
• Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port

Media types

• 8 Gbps: Brocade 300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 8 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL
• 4 Gbps: Brocade 300 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 4 Gbps SWL, LWL, ELWL

Fabric services

• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring (including Top Talkers); Adaptive Networking (Ingress Rate Limiting, Traffic Isolation, QoS); BB credit recovery; Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning); Bottleneck Detection; Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); F_Port Trunking; Extended Fabrics; Fabric Watch; FDMI; Frame Redirection; FSPF; IPoFC; ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; NTP v3; Port Fencing; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS)