Brocade 7810

Brocade 7810

  • 1U chassis designed to be mounted in a 19-in. cabinet
  • The Brocade 7810 provides scalable deployment options to extend multiprotocol disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions over long distances
  • With twelve 32 Gb/s capable Fibre Channel ports and six 1/10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, this switch provides the bandwidth and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN connections.

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Move more data faster over distance
Protect data from WAN disruptions and outages
Secure data from threats over the WAN

  • Maximize replication throughput across optimized WAN links
  • Compress data without a WAN performance penalty
  • Consolidate FC and IP replication workloads

  • Avoid replication restarts with lossless failover
  • Maintain WAN performance during network disruptions
  • Pre-validate the WAN infrastructure to ensure a worry-free deployment
  • Automatically detect WAN anomalies with proactive monitoring

  • Minimize threats with unbreakable network encryption
  • Encrypt data without impacting replication performance
  • Simplify compliance to meet security regulations

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    Move more data faster over distance
    • Maximize replication throughput across optimized WAN links
    • Compress data without a WAN performance penalty
    • Consolidate FC and IP replication workloads
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    Protect data from WAN disruptions and outages
    • Avoid replication restarts with lossless failover
    • Maintain WAN performance during network disruptions
    • Pre-validate the WAN infrastructure to ensure a worry-free deployment
    • Automatically detect WAN anomalies with proactive monitoring
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    Secure data from threats over the WAN
    • Minimize threats with unbreakable network encryption
    • Encrypt data without impacting replication performance
    • Simplify compliance to meet security regulations

Tech Specs

Enclosure 1U chassis designed to be mounted in a 19-in. cabinet
Fibre Channel ports 12 ports, 32 Gbit/s capable, universal (E, F, M, D, and EX ports)
Ethernet ports 6 ports of 1GbE/10GbE for LAN and WAN connectivity
Scalabiliy Full fabric architecture with 239 switches maximum
Certified maximum Single fabric: 56 domains, 7 hops
Multiprotocol routing fabric: 19 hops
Fibre Channel performance 8.5 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex;
14.025 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05 Gbit/s line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 8, 16, and 32 Gbit/s port speeds
Ethernet interfaces 1GbE, 10GbE
Brocade Trunking Up to eight 32 Gbit/s links aggregating to 256 Gbit/s per trunk. There is no limit to how many trunk groups can be configured per switch.
Fabric latency Non-blocking shared memory, 900 ns with no contention, cut-through switching at 32 Gbit/s
Maximum Fibre Channel frame sizeh 2,112-byte payload
Maximum IP MTU size Jumbo Frames 1280 bytes to 9216 bytes
Classes of service Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames)
Port types F_Port, E_Port, EX_Port, (FCR E_Port), D_Port (Diagnostic), M_Port (Mirror), and self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port); VE_Port (FCIP and IP extension)
Data traffic types Fibre Channel, FCIP, and IP extension
USB One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades
Media typese Fibre Channel: Brocade hot-pluggable Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and SFP+, short wavelength(SWL), and long wavelength (LWL) transceivers (available wavelength options vary for 8, 16, and 32 Gbit/s SFPs)

Ethernet: Brocade hot-pluggable SFP and SFP+, short-reach wavelength (SRWL), long-reach wavelength (LRWL), and copper SFP/SFP+ transceivers
Fabric services Simple Name Server (SNS); Registered State Change Notification (RSCN), NTP, RADIUS, RCS (Reliable Commit Service), Dynamic Path Selection (DPS), Exchange-based routing, device-based routing, portbased routing, lossless, Brocade Advanced Zoning, Web Tools, Brocade Trunking, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Vision, SDDQ
Extension Extension Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting (ARL), WAN Test Tool (Wtool), Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP), FastWrite (FCIP-FW), QoS Marking, Bandwidth Enforcement, PerPriority TCP QoS,(PTQ), Advanced Extension, and Integrated Routing (FCR).
Licensing options The following optional extension features can be enabled on the Brocade 7810 base configuration via the upgrade license:
  • Enable WAN-side throughput from 1 Gbit/s to 2.5 Gbit/s
  • Enable 10 GbE port speed on the Ethernet ports
  • Turn on additional 8 Fibre Channel ports, includes 16 Gbit/s SFPs
  • Enable advanced software features, including Brocade Fabric Vision technology, Extension Trunking, Fibre Channel Trunking, and Integrated Routing

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