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Brocade VDX 8770-4 Hardware Reference Manual 3
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Brocade VDX 8770-4 hardware components
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The 6x100 GbE line cards ship with two base 100 Gigabit ports enabled, but can be
upgraded to enable six ports through the 100G Port Upgrade license. This upgrade license
is supported by Network OS 5.0.0 and later. Ports support 100 GbE CFP2 (SR10 and LR4)
optical transceivers.
- Up to 192 1/10 Gigabit Base-T Ethernet ports for the 48x10G-T line card.
48x10G-T line cards support fixed 10 GbE Base-T (RJ-45) copper transceivers.
- Up to 108 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports for the 27x40 GbE line card. Up to 288 10
Gigabit ports are supported in QSFP breakout mode.
27x40 GbE line cards support 40 GbE QSFP optical transceivers.
• Two slots for management modules:
- A single active management module can control all ports in the chassis.
- The standby management module takes control of the Brocade VDX 8770-4 if the active
management module fails.
• Three slots for switch fabric modules that interconnect all line cards.
• Modular, hot-swappable field-replaceable units (FRUs):
- 48x10 GbE line card
- 48x1 GbE line card
- 12x40 GbE line card
- 6x100 GbE line card
- 48x10G-T line card
- 27x40 GbE line card
- Two fan assemblies
- Up to four 3000W power supplies, 200–240 VAC auto-sensing or -48 VDC (each power
supply connection should be separately fused)
• Two vertical cable management finger assemblies
Port side of the Brocade VDX 8770-4
NOTE
Airflow in the Brocade VDX 8770-4 is from the port side and left side (viewed from the port side) to
the rear (fan side) of the chassis.
Figure 1 displays a sample configuration of the port side of the Brocade VDX 8770-4.