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Environmental requirements

Table 6 lists the acceptable environmental ranges for both operating and nonoperating (such as

during transportation or storage) conditions.

General specifications

Table 7 lists the general specifications for the Brocade VA-40FC.

TABLE 6 Environmental Requirements

Condition Acceptable During Operation Acceptable During Non-Operation

Ambient

Temperature

0 to 40 Celsius

(32

to 104 Fahrenheit)

-25

 to 70 Celsius

(-13

 to 158 Fahrenheit)

Humidity 10% to 85% RH non-condensing, at

40 Celsius (104

 Fahrenheit), with maximum

gradient of 10% per hour

10% to 90% RH non-condensing, at 70°

Celsius (158

 Fahrenheit)

Altitude 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) above sea level 0 to 12 kilometers (39,370 feet) above sea

level

Shock 20 G, 6 ms, half-sine wave Half sine, 33G 11ms, 3/e.g. Axis

Vibration 0.5 G sine, 0.4 grms random, 5-500 Hz 2.0 G sine, 1.1 grms random 5-500 Hz

Air flow High speed, 13,000 RPM,

49.3 CMH (29 CFM)

Low speed, 7000 RPM,

37.4 CMH (22 CFM)

None required

TABLE 7 General Specifications

Specification Description

Configurable port types E_Port, F_Port, FL_Port, M_Port, and EX_Port

System architecture Nonblocking shared-memory switch

System processor Power PC 440EPX,667 MHz CPU

ANSI Fibre Channel protocol FC-PH (Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface standard)

Modes of operation Fibre Channel Class 2 and Class 3

Fabric initialization Complies with FC-SW-3 Rev. 6.6

FC-IP (IP over Fibre Channel) Complies with FC-IP 2.3 of FCA profile

Aggregate switch I/O bandwidth 640 Gbps if all 40 ports are running at 8 Gbps, full duplex

Port-to-port latency 700 nanoseconds