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long distance FC
Hi All
i wana connect two sites directly with FC
distance 30 KM
switch 5300B ( speed of this switch 8G per port)
what the required license ?
do i need both extended fabric ?
do i need ISL ?
what the speed i can get between both sites ?
any requirement should i provide for the cabling vendor ?
Many Thansk
Elian
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July 10th, 2011 08:00
Hello
You need Extended Fabric licenses on both switches.
You do need ISL cause two switches connected with each other use ISL to form fabric.
Here is table with possible speeds and distances:
Best regards,
Alex
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Mosa3lyan
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August 11th, 2011 05:00
in KM
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August 11th, 2011 06:00
Should be meters, not kilometers
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August 22nd, 2011 02:00
The distances are in Km. As per avs previous post, 73 Km is the maximun distance for extended ISLs at 8Gb that Brocade supports.But I have been checking the latest EMC Connectrix Config guide (Aug-2011) and it seems that EMC only supports 10Km 8G Long wave SFPs by the moment.
besides, long wave SFPs, you can consider also using normal 8G shortwave SFPs combined with CWDM/DWDM equipments.This is the most common configuration I have seen over the time.
Rgds,
Felipe
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August 23rd, 2011 01:00
Felipe, you're right. I accidently was thinking about MM instead of SM and even thenm the numbers didn't make any sense. Thanks for pointing it out