[f-nsp] MLX Capability

[i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt]

Hi Salman, 

I never put it to the test, but these cards will probably just not function in a MLX at all. 

On 20 February 2014 12:10:34 CET, salman sadiq <salmanravian at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>>>
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