Hardware Components

The device has a modular and scalable mechanical construction that allows a wide range of flexibility in installation, fabric design, and maintenance. The device can be mounted with the cables facing either the front or the rear of the equipment rack. It consists of the following hardware components:

• Up to eight slots for hot-swappable port blade assemblies, providing the following Fibre Channel port support based on the port blade:

FC128-48 blades provide up to 384 128G FC ports. FC128-48 port blades can also support up to 192 100G Ethernet ports, which reduces the FC port count.

• Two half-size slots for ICL blades:
  • Each ICLX8-8 blade has 64 front-end ports that are mapped to the eight Gen 8 ICL OSFP ports.
  • ICL ports support Gen 8 and Gen 7 ICL operating speeds.
  • ICL ports allow interconnection with neighboring director chassis.
  • Both ICL blades are active and can be hot-swapped.
• Two half-size slots for control processor (CP) blades:
  • A single active CP blade can control all the ports in the device.
  • The standby CP blade assumes control of the device if the active CP blade fails.
• Two slots on the non port-side for core routing (CR) blades:
  • The CR blade interconnects all port blades.
  • Both CR blades are active and can be hot-swapped.
• Modular, hot-swappable FRUs:
  • Three fan assemblies, available with NPI or NPE airflow.
  • Up to six 3000W power supplies located on the port side of the device, available with the NPI or NPE airflow.

Redundant primary power connections ensure high availability. Each power supply assembly has its own connector, so the number of primary power connections is three for optimum efficiency and redundancy.

• • Port blades use SFP+ optical transceivers.
  • ICL blades use Gen 8 ICL OSFP optical transceivers.
• One Chassis Identifier (CID) located on the non port-side of the device behind fan assembly 1.