[f-nsp] MLX Capability

[salman sadiq]

Thank you for the information. You are right about the 8x10G cards
requiring hSFM. In fact we already have hSFMs installed. For the 24x10G and
40G modules, will they simply not work in an MLX chassis? Or is the
limitation coming from the chassis t'put? In case it is a t'put limitation
we can calculate the right mix of 10G 24 port and 4/8 port LPs. Of course
not all the 16 slots are going to contain 24x10G cards.

Thank you.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:50 PM, i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt <
martijnschmidt at i3d.net> wrote:

> Hi Salman,
>
> You need a MLXe backplane to install some of the newer blades, amongst
> others the 24x10G, 40G and 100G linecards.
>
> Please note hSFM are already required to use 8x10G blades in a MLX
> chassis, you can only run gen1 cards such as the 4x10G blade with
> "old/regular" SFM.
>
> On 20 February 2014 08:22:22 CET, salman sadiq <salmanravian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Team,
>>              We have 2 Brocade MLX-16s at the distribution layer of our
>> DC connecting to FCX as TOR switches. We were thinking to upgrade the DC
>> capacity where the servers connect to 10G links instead of current 1G. Thus
>> replace the FCXs with something newer that is 10G capable, may be a VDX.
>> However, on the MLX we only have 8x10G and 4x10G cards. I was thinking if
>> these can be replaced with 24x10G cards without an issue. Do we need to
>> upgrade the SFMs to HSF to achieve this? And also, is there a possibility
>> of having 2x40G LP on the MLX-16? Please note that we have MLX-16s not
>> MLX-e routers.
>>
>> BR
>> Salman
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> foundry-nsp mailing list
>> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
>>
>>
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/foundry-nsp/attachments/20140220/91f7815c/attachment.html>