<html><head></head><body>Hi Salman, <br>
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You need a MLXe backplane to install some of the newer blades, amongst others the 24x10G, 40G and 100G linecards. <br>
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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. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2014 08:22:22 CET, salman sadiq <salmanravian@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Team,<br /></div> 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 />
<br /></div>BR<br />Salman<br /></div>
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