Brocade 7840

Brocade 7840

  • 2U chassis designed to be mounted in a 19-in. cabinet
  • The Brocade 7840 provides scalable deployment options to extend multiprotocol disaster recovery and data protection storage solutions over long distances
  • Twenty-four 16 Gbps Fiber Channel ports, sixteen 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports, and two 40 GbE ports provide the bandwidth, port density, and throughput required for maximum application performance over WAN connections.

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Powerful performance, robust scalability
Continuous availability across data centers
Simplified management, robust network analytics

  • Accelerate performance over distance with up to 80 Gbit/s of throughput
  • Maximize replication throughput across IP ports with WAN optimization
  • Secure data flows with full-line rate IPsec encryption and no performance penalty
  • Speed replication and backup with FastWrite and Tape Pipeline latency optimization

  • Avoid WAN link failure through Extension Trunking with lossless failover technology
  • Achieve always-on operations with the industry’s only WAN-side non-disruptive firmware upgrades
  • Maintain uninterrupted WAN performance through dynamic bandwidth sharing with Adaptive Rate Limiting

  • Monitor WAN traffic between data centers proactively to detect anomalies and prevent downtime
  • Validate and troubleshoot physical infrastructure with built-in traffic generator and Brocade Flow Vision
  • Identify, monitor, and analyze end-to-end I/O flows over distance to accelerate troubleshooting and optimize performance
  • Reduce administrative effort with Web-accessible dashboards
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    Powerful performance, robust scalability
    • Accelerate performance over distance with up to 80 Gbit/s of throughput
    • Maximize replication throughput across IP ports with WAN optimization
    • Secure data flows with full-line rate IPsec encryption and no performance penalty
    • Speed replication and backup with FastWrite and Tape Pipeline latency optimization
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    Continuous availability across data centers
    • Avoid WAN link failure through Extension Trunking with lossless failover technology
    • Achieve always-on operations with the industry’s only WAN-side non-disruptive firmware upgrades
    • Maintain uninterrupted WAN performance through dynamic bandwidth sharing with Adaptive Rate Limiting
  • ImgPlaceholder
    Simplified management, robust network analytics
    • Monitor WAN traffic between data centers proactively to detect anomalies and prevent downtime
    • Validate and troubleshoot physical infrastructure with built-in traffic generator and Brocade Flow Vision
    • Identify, monitor, and analyze end-to-end I/O flows over distance to accelerate troubleshooting and optimize performance
    • Reduce administrative effort with Web-accessible dashboards

Tech Specs

Enclosure 2U chassis designed to be mounted in a 19-in. cabinet
Fibre Channel ports 24 ports. 16Gbps. universal (E,F,M,D, and EX ports)
Ethernet ports 16 ports of 1/10 GbE for LAN and WAN connectivity
2 ports of 40 GbE for WAN connectivity
Scalabiliy Full fabric architecture with 254 switches maximum
Certified maximum Single fabric: 56 domains, 7 hops
Multiprotocol routing fabric: 19 hops
Fibre Channel performance 2.125 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 4.25 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 2, 4, 8, and 16 Gbps port speeds
Ethernet interfaces 1 GbE, 10 GbE, and 40 GbE
Brocade Trunking (BT) Up to eight 16 Gbps ports per Brocade Trunk; up to 128 Gbps per trunk. There is no limit to how many trunk groups can be configured in the switch.
Fabric latency 700 ns with no contention, cut-through routing at 16 Gbps
Maximum Fibre Channel frame sizeh 2,112-byte payload
Maximum IP MTU size Jumbo Frames at 9,216 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)
Data traffic types Fabric switches supporting unicast, multicast (255 groups), and broadcast
USB One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades
Media typese Fibre Channel: Brocade hot-pluggable Small Form Factor (SFP) and SFP+, short wavelength (SWL), long wavelength (LWL), and extended long wavelength (ELWL) transceivers (available wavelength options vary for 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps SFPs)
Ethernet: Brocade hot-pluggable Small Form Factor (SFP) and SFP+, short reach wavelength (SRWL), long reach wavelength (LRWL), extended long wavelength (ELWL), and copper SFP/SFP+ transceivers (available reach options vary from 1 GbE, 10 GbE, and 40 GbE)
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, port-based routing, lossless), Brocade Advanced Zoning, Web Tools, Extension Trunking, Adaptive Rate Limiting, WAN Test Tool (Wtool), Open Systems Tape Pipelining (OSTP), Fast Write, Adaptive Networking with QoS, Extended Fabrics, Fabric Vision technology, and Advanced Extension. Optional Fabric Services include Integrated Routing (FCR).
Licensing options The following optional extension features can be enabled via license keys:
  • Brocade 7840 WAN Rate Upgrade License 1 and 2: Enables additional WAN-side throughput to 10 Gbps and unlimited with enablement of 40 GbE ports

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