Brocade G720
Brocade G720
- Provide high scalability with 56 ports in a 1U switch
- Accelerate critical workloads with 64Gb/s links
- Maximize performance of NVMe storage with 50% lower switching latency than Gen 6
- Enable pay-as-you-grow scalability from 24 to 56 ports—for on-demand flexibility
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High Scalability and Flexibility |
High Performance |
User-Centered Design |
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High Scalability and Flexibility
- Provide high scalability with 56 ports in a 1U switch
- Enable pay-as-you-grow scalability from 24 to 56 ports—for on-demand flexibility
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High Performance
- Accelerate critical workloads with 64Gb/s links
- Maximize performance of NVMe storage with 50% lower switching latency than Gen 6
- Simplify troubleshooting by identifying and isolating issues
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User-Centered Design
- Collect comprehensive telemetry data across the fabric to enable powerful analytics
- Visualize the data to easily understand the health and performance of the SAN
- Automate repetitive tasks to save time and eliminate human error
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Tech Specs
| Fibre Channel ports |
Switch mode (default): Minimum of 24 ports and maximum of 56 ports. Ports are enabled in increments of 8 ports up to 56 ports via Ports on Demand (PoD) licenses; E_Ports, F_Ports, M_Port, D_Ports, EX_Ports. Brocade Access Gateway default port mapping: 56 SFP+ F_Ports, 8 SFP+ N_Ports.
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| Scalability |
Full-fabric architecture with a maximum of 239 switches |
| Certified maximum |
4K active nodes; 56 switches, 19 hops in Brocade Fabric OS® fabrics |
| Performance |
Fibre Channel: 8.5Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 10.53Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 14.025Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 28.05Gb/s line speed, full duplex; 57.8Gb/s line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing of 8, 10, 16, 32, and 64Gb/s port speeds. 10Gb/s [1] optionally programmable to fixed port speed.
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| ISL trunking |
Frame-based trunking with up to eight SFP+ ports per ISL trunk; up to 512Gb/s per ISL trunk. Exchangebased load balancing across ISLs with Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) included in Brocade Fabric OS. |
| Aggregate bandwidth |
3.584Tb/s |
| Maximum fabric latency |
Latency for locally switched ports is 460 ns (including FEC). |
| Maximum frame size |
2112-byte payload |
| Frame buffers |
24K per switching ASIC |
| Classes of service |
Class 2, Class 3, Class F (inter-switch frames) |
| Port types |
D_Port (ClearLink® Diagnostic Port), E_Port, EX_Port, F_Port, M port; optional port-type control Brocade Access Gateway mode: F_Port and NPIV-enabled N_Port |
| Data traffic types |
Fabric switches supporting unicast |
| Media types |
64Gb/s: Brocade G720 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 64Gb/s SWL. 32Gb/s: Brocade G720 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 32Gb/s SWL, LWL 10 km. 10Gb/s[1]: Brocade G720 requires Brocade hot-pluggable SFP+, LC connector; 10Gb/s SWL, LWL 10 km. Fibre Channel distance is subject to fiber-optic cable and port speed.
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| USB |
One standard USB port for firmware download, support save, and configuration upload or download. |
Fabric services
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Fabric Vision; Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS); Flow Vision; Brocade Adaptive Networking (QoS); Fabric Performance Impact (FPI) Monitoring; Slow Drain Device Quarantine (SDDQ); Brocade Advanced Zoning (default zoning, port/WWN zoning, broadcast zoning, peer zoning, target-driven zoning); Dynamic Fabric Provisioning (DFP); Dynamic Path Selection (DPS); Brocade Extended Fabrics; Enhanced BB Credit Recovery; FDMI; Frame Redirection; Frame-based Trunking; FSPF; Integrated Routing; IPoFC; Brocade ISL Trunking; Management Server; NPIV; Time Server; Registered State Change Notification (RSCN); Reliable Commit Service (RCS); Simple Name Server (SNS); Virtual Fabrics (Logical Switch, Logical Fabric); Read Diagnostics Parameter (RDP). |
| Extension |
Fibre Channel, in-flight compression (Brocade LZO) and encryption (AES-GCM-256 encryption on FC ISLs [E_Port]); integrated optional 10Gb/s Fibre Channel[1] for DWDM MAN connectivity .
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