Nortel has announced an 1/10GB ethernet switch with 6x external 1G external uplinks AND 3x 10G ports in the standard bladecenter form factor so it fits in all BladeCenter chassis. This switch is also supported in MSIM.
Source: Blade Network Technologies, IBM Product Brief
Specifications
Supported by all IBM BladeCenter chassis
- Standard Switch form factor
- Also supported in MSIM
Port
- 22x 1G copper RJ-45
- 6x 1G RJ45 External uplinks
- 14x 1G Internal server links
- 2x Internal MM ports
- 3x 10G ports
- 3 SFP+ uplink ports (SR/LR)
- SFP+ SR Transceiver part #: 44W4408
Line rate performance with no packet drop
Power ~ 40W
SFP+ Modules
SFP+ is a next-generation transceiver module form factor specified by the ANSI T11 Group for 8.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel & Ethernet apps.
Similar to 1-4 Gbps SFP modules, the SFP+ form factor is 30% smaller than the XFP form factor and moves the signal conditioning function from the module to the host card along with the SerDes, CDR, EDC and MAC functions.
The result is a simplified transceiver module with electrical-to-optical (E-to-O) and optical-to-electrical (O-to-E) PMD functions.
Reaches include
- 10GBASE-SR (30m - 300m with OM-3 grade multi-mode fiber),
- 10GBASE-LR (10km across single-mode fiber), and
- 10GBASE-LRM (220m with FDDI grade multi-mode fiber).
Benefits include higher port density, lower power modules, and lower system costs through better integration of IC functions at the host card level.
SFP+ SR Transceiver Part number: 44W4408
SFP+ LR Transceiver Part number: 44W4412
SFP+ LR Transceiver Part number: 44W4412
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